Bács-Bodrog

Bács-Bodrog County
Comitatus Bacsiensis et Bodrogiensis  (Latin)
Bács-Bodrog vármegye  (Hungarian)
Komitat Batsch-Bodrog  (German)
Bačko-bodroška županija  (Serbian)

County of the Kingdom of Hungary
in Austria-Hungary

18th century–1920

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Capital

Zombor (present-day Sombor)
45°46′N 19°7′E / 45.767°N 19.117°ECoordinates: 45°46′N 19°7′E / 45.767°N 19.117°E

History

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Established

18th century

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Treaty of Trianon

4 June 1920

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County recreated

1941

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Abolished

1944 1920

Area

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1910

10,362 km²(4,001 sq mi)

Population

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1910

812,385

Density

78.4 /km² (203.1 /sq mi)

Today part of

Serbia
Hungary

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Bács-Bodrog County (Hungarian: Bács-Bodrog vármegye, German: Komitat Batsch-Bodrog, Serbian: Bačko-bodroška županija) was the administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary from the 18th century to 1920. Its territory is currently in northern Serbia (western Vojvodina) and southern Hungary. The capital of the county was Zombor (present-day Sombor).

The county was named after two older counties: Bács and Bodrog. Bács county was named after a town of Bács (present-day Bač) and the Bodrog county was named after a historical town of Bodrog (which was located near present-day Bački Monoštor), which itself was named after a Slavic tribe Abodrites (or Bodrići in Slavic) that inhabited this area in the Middle Ages. The Abodrites were originally from northwest Germany, but after their homeland fell to the Germans, some had moved to Pannonia.

Bács-Bodrog county shared borders with several other counties of the Kingdom of Hungary: Baranya, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Csongrád, Torontál, Syrmia, and Virovitica (the latter two counties were part of autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia). The river Danube formed its western and southern border. The river Tisza formed its eastern border, down to its confluence with the Danube. Its area was 10,362 km² around 1910.

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