Baranya County (former)
| Baranya County Comitatus Baranyiensis (Latin) Baranya vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Baranya (German) Baranjska županija (Croatian) |
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| County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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| Capital |
Pécs 46°5′N 18°14′E / 46.083°N 18.233°ECoordinates: 46°5′N 18°14′E / 46.083°N 18.233°E |
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| History | |||||
| • | Battle of Mohács (1687) | 1000 | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | 4 June 1920 | |||
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| • | 1910 | 5,177 km2(1,999 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 352,478 | |||
| Density | 68.1 /km2 (176.3 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of | Hungary, Croatia | ||||
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Baranya (Hungarian: Baranya, Croatian: Baranja, Serbian: Барања, German: Branau) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in southern Hungary (the present county Baranya) and northeastern Croatia (part of the Osijek-Baranja county). The capital of the county was Pécs.
Baranya county was located in Baranya region. It shared borders with the Hungarian counties Somogy, Tolna, Bács-Bodrog and Verőce (the latter county was part of Croatia-Slavonia). The county stretched along the rivers Drava (north bank) and Danube (west bank), up to their confluence. Its area was 5,176 km² around 1910.
Baranya county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century. Stephen I of Hungary founded an episcopal seat here. In the 15th century, Janus Pannonius was the Bishop of Pécs. In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire conquered Baranya, and included it into the sanjak of Mohács, an Ottoman administrative unit, with the seat in the city of Mohács.
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