Turóc County

Turóc (Hungarian, historically also spelled Túrócz), Slovak: Turiec, Latin: Thurotzium/comitatus Thurociensis, German: Turz) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in north-western Slovakia, where it is under name Turiec only an informal designation of the corresponding territory.

Geography

Turóc county shared borders with the counties of Nyitra (Nitra), Trencsén (Trenčín), Árva (Orava), Liptó (Liptov), Zólyom (Zvolen) and Bars (Tekov). Situated between the Malá Fatra and Veľká Fatra Mountains. The river Turiec flowed through the county. Its area was 1123 km² around 1910.

Capitals

The capitals of the Turóc county were the Sklabiňa Castle and Martin (name until 1950: Turčiansky Svätý Martin); from 1772 only Martin was the capital.

History

Turóc county as a Hungarian comitatus arose before the 15th century. In the aftermath of World War I, the area of the now defunct Turóc county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. The territory of the county is now part of Slovakia.

Demographics

Population by language (1910 manipulated^[1][2] census by the ruling Hungarian bureaucracy):

• Slovak = 38,432
• German = 10,993
• Hungarian = 5,560

Subdivisions

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

• Lower Turóc - its center was Martin and the subregion corresponds to the present-day District of Martin
• Upper Turóc - its center was Turčianske Teplice and the subregion corresponds to the present-day District of Turčianske Teplice

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