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Nyitra County

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Capital
  
Nyitra

Abolished
  
1920

1910
  
457,455

Established
  
11th century

1910
  
5,519 km (2,131 sq mi)

Today part of
  
Slovakia

Nyitra County

Nyitra County (Hungarian: Nyitra vármegye; German: Neutraer Gespanschaft/Komitat Neutra; Latin: Comitatus Nitriensis; Slovak: Nitriansky komitát / Nitrianska stolica / Nitrianska župa) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lay in what is now western Slovakia.

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Geography

Nyitra County shared borders with the Austrian land Moravia and Trencsén County, Turóc County, Bars County, Komárom County and Pozsony County. In its final phase, it was a strip of land between the Morava river in the north and the town of Érsekújvár (present-day Nové Zámky) in the south, plus an outlier around the town of Privigye (present-day Prievidza). The river Vág (present-day Váh) flowed through the county. Its area was 5519 km² around 1910.

Capitals

The capital of the county was the Nitra Castle (In Hungarian: nyitrai vár) and since the Late Middle Ages the town of Nyitra (present-day Nitra).

History

A predecessor to Nyitra county existed as early as in the 9th century at the time of Great Moravia. Around 1000, Nyitra county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. The southern part, including the town Nyitra, was ruled as Uyvar Province between 1663–1685 by Ottoman Empire. The county shortly ceased to exist as a separate administrative unit between 1850 and 1853, when it was split into Upper Nyitra County (including Bánovce (Hungarian: Bán) district from Trencsén County) and Lower Nyitra County (including Oslany (Hungarian: Oszlány) district from Bars County).

After World War I, Nyitra county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia. Nitra county (Nitrianska župa) continued to exist within its original borders until 1923, when it was replaced by so-called "Nitra Great County", officially The County XIV. (Nitrianska). In 1928, Nitra County was abolished like all other counties in Slovakia. During the First Slovak Republic the county was shortly restored (1940-1945), however without southern parts annexed by Hungary in November 1938, as a result of the First Vienna Award.

1900

In 1900, the county had a population of 428,296 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:

Total:

  • Slovak: 312,601 (73.0%)
  • Hungarian: 80,962 (18.9%)
  • German: 32,370 (7.6%)
  • Romanian: 40 (0.0%)
  • Croatian: 17 (0.0%)
  • Ruthenian: 17 (0.0%)
  • Serbian: 9 (0.0%)
  • Other or unknown: 2,280 (0.5%)

    • According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:

    Total:

  • Roman Catholic: 337,905 (78.9%)
  • Lutheran: 57,203 (13.4%)
  • Jewish: 24,935 (5.8%)
  • Calvinist: 8,035 (1.9%)
  • Greek Catholic: 93 (0.0%)
  • Greek Orthodox: 56 (0.0%)
  • Unitarian: 14 (0.0%)
  • Other or unknown: 55 (0.0%)

    • 1910

    In 1910, the county had a population of 457,455 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:

    Total:

  • Slovak: 324,664 (71.0%)
  • Hungarian: 100,324 (22.0%)
  • German: 27,937 (6.1%)
  • Croatian: 81 (0.0%)
  • Romanian: 39 (0.0%)
  • Serbian: 26 (0.0%)
  • Ruthenian: 13 (0.0%)
  • Other or unknown: 4,371 (0.9%)

    • According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:

    Total:

  • Roman Catholic: 369,225 (80.8%)
  • Lutheran: 56,676 (12.4%)
  • Jewish: 22,942 (5.0%)
  • Calvinist: 8,238 (1.8%)
  • Greek Catholic: 156 (0.0%)
  • Greek Orthodox: 65 (0.0%)
  • Unitarian: 9 (0.0%)
  • Other or unknown: 144 (0.0%)

    • Subdivisions

    The subdivisions of Nyitra county were:

    References

    Nyitra County Wikipedia
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