Komárom county

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = Comitatus Comaromiensis
conventional_long_name = Komárom County
common_name = Komárom
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 11th century
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4




capital = Komárom
stat_area1 = 2834
stat_pop1 = 201800
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Slovakia, Hungary
footnotes = Komárno is the current name of the capital.

Komárom county (in Latin: "comitatus Comaromiensis", in Hungarian: "Komárom (vár)megye", in Slovak: "Komárňanský komitát / Komárňanská stolica / Komárňanská župa", in German: "Komorner Gespanschaft / Komitat Komorn") was a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day southern Slovakia (1/2) and north-western Hungary (1/2) on both sides of the Danube river.

Geography

Komárom county shared borders with the counties Győr, Pozsony (Bratislava), Nyitra (Nitra), Bars (Tekov), Esztergom, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Fejér and Veszprém. The rivers Danube, Váh and Nitra run through the county. It also covered the eastern part of the island between the Danube and the Little Danube (Žitný ostrov, translates as "rye island", "Csallóköz" in Hungarian). Its area was 2834 km² around 1910.

Capitals

The capital of the county was the Komárom/Komárno Castle and later the town of Komárom/Komárno (divided between Hungary and Slovakia).

History

The Komárom comitatus arose in the 11th century as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was situated within a radius of about 20 km around Komárom/Komárno.

In the aftermath of World War I, the part of Komárom county north of the Danube became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia (as Komárno county), as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. In 1922, the territory of Komárno county was divided between the Nitra county and the Bratislava county. The part south of the Danube stayed in Hungary and merged with the southern part of Esztergom county to form Komárom-Esztergom county.

Following the provisions of the controversial First Vienna Award, the Czechoslovak part came under Hungarian control in November 1938. A new Komárom county was recreated, which included, besides the territory of pre-1918 Komárom county, most of the Rye Island (Žitný ostrov). After World War II, the pre-war situation was reestablished, except that the name of the Hungarian part became Komárom county again. This county was renamed to Komárom-Esztergom county in 1992. The part of the pre-1918 county north of the river Danube is now in Slovakia, is part of the Nitra region and is largely identical with the Komárno district.

ubdivisions

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

Komárno (except the southern part, present Komárom), Zemianska Olča, Dvory nad Žitavou and Hurbanovo are presently in Slovakia.