Somogy (former county)

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Somogy was the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was slightly larger than that of present Somogy county, is presently in south-western Hungary. The capital of the county was Kaposvár.

[edit] Geography

Somogy County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

11th century – 1920

Capital

Kaposvár

History

- Established

11th century

- Treaty of Trianon

June 4, 1920

Area

- 1910

6,675 km² (2,577 sq mi)

Population

- 1910 est.

366,000

Density

54.8 /km² (142 /sq mi)

Today part of

Hungary

Somogy county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Zala, Veszprém, Tolna, Baranya, Verőce and Belovár-Körös (the latter two part of Croatia-Slavonia). It covered the southern shore of Lake Balaton and the region south of the lake. The river Drave formed most of its southern border. Its area was 6530 km² around 1910.

[edit] History

Somogy county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century.

The city Siófok, which used to be in Somogy county before the 1850s, went back from Veszprém county to Somogy county before World War II. After World War II the district of Szigetvár went to Baranya county.

[edit] Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Somogy county were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Barcs	Barcs
Csurgó	Csurgó
Igal	Igal
Kaposvár	Kaposvár
Lengyeltóti	Lengyeltóti
Marcali	Marcali
Nagyatád	Nagyatád
Szigetvár	Szigetvár
Tab	Tab
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Kaposvár