- Bereg (county)
Infobox Former Subdivision
conventional_long_name = Bereg County
common_name = Bereg
subdivision = County
nation = theKingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 12th century
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4
capital = Beregszász
stat_area1 = 3786
stat_pop1 = 236600
stat_year1 = 1910
today =Ukraine ,Hungary
footnotes =Berehove is the current name of the capital.Bereg ( _de. Berg) is the name of a historic administrative county (
comitatus ) of theKingdom of Hungary . Its territory is presently in north-easternHungary and westernUkraine . The capital of the county wasBerehove (Ukrainian, "Beregszász" in Hungarian, "Bergsaß" in German, "Beregovo" in Russian, "Bereg" in Romanian).Geography
Bereg county shared borders with the
Austria n crownland Galicia (currently inPoland andUkraine ) and the Hungarian countiesMáramaros ,Ugocsa ,Szatmár , Szabolcs andUng . It was situated between theCarpathian Mountains in the north and the riverTisza in the south. Its area was 3788 km² around 1910.History
Bereg is one of the oldest counties of the
Hungary . In 1920 theTreaty of Trianon assigned most of the territory toCzechoslovakia . The southwestern part remained inHungary (county Szatmár-Ugocsa-Bereg).During
World War II , whenCzechoslovakia was split temporarily, the complete county was occupied by Hungary under theFirst Vienna Award . The county Bereg was recreated, again withBerehove /Beregszász as capital.After World War II, the formerly Czechoslovak part of Bereg county became part of the
Soviet Union ,Ukrainian SSR ,Zakarpattia Oblast . Since 1991, when theSoviet Union split up, theZakarpattya region is part ofUkraine .The south-western part of the county, that was in
Hungary beforeWorld War II , became part of the Hungarian county Szabolcs-Szatmár. This county was renamedSzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg in the 1990s.ubdivisions
In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Bereg county were:
All the towns mentioned are presently in
Ukraine .
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