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Árva (Slovak: Orava, Polish: Orawa, German: Arwa) is the Hungarian name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Slovakia and southern Poland. Today, the Slovak name is only used as an informal designation of the corresponding territory (see Orava (region)).
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In the past Árva county shared borders with the Austrian land Galicia and the Hungarian counties Trencsén (Trenčín), Turóc (Turiec) and Liptó (Liptov). The county's territory was situated along the Orava River between Zázrivá and the Tatra mountains. Its area was 2,019 km² around 1910. Now its territory is divided by the Polish-Slovakian border. The main Polish town of Orava is Jabłonka.
The capital of the county was the Orava Castle, then Veličná and since the late 17th century Dolný Kubín.
Árva county as a Hungarian comitatus arose before the 15th century. In the aftermath of World War I, the area became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. After a border dispute (treated in detail under Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts) several villages in the north-east of the now defunct Árva county's territory were exchanged between Poland and Czechoslovakia.
During World War II, when Czechoslovakia was split temporarily, Orava was part of independent Slovakia. After World War II Orava county was in Czechoslovakia again. In 1993, Czechoslovakia was split and Orava became part of Slovakia.
Population by language (1910 census):
In the early 20th century, the districts and their capitals were:
| Districts (járás) | |
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| District | Capital |
| Alsókubin | Alsókubin, SK Dolný Kubín |
| Námesztó | Námesztó, SK Námestovo |
| Trsztena | Trsztena, SK Trstená |
| Vár | Turdossin, SK Tvrdošín |
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