Borsod county

Borsod County Comitatus Borsodiensis  (Latin) Borsod vármegye  (Hungarian) Komitat Borschod  (German)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
11th century–1950
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Capital		Miskolc 48°6′N 20°47′E / 48.100°N 20.783°E / 48.100; 20.783Coordinates: 48°6′N 20°47′E / 48.100°N 20.783°E / 48.100; 20.783
History
•	Established	11th century
•	Disestablished	1 January 1950
Area
•	1910	3,629 km2(1,401 sq mi)
Population
•	1910	289,900
	Density	79.9 /km2  (206.9 /sq mi)
Today part of		Hungary

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Borsod was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day northeastern Hungary. The capital of the county was Miskolc. After World War II, the county was merged with the Hungarian parts of Abaúj-Torna and Zemplén counties to form Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.

Before World War I, Borsod county shared borders with the counties Gömör-Kishont, Abaúj-Torna, Zemplén, Szabolcs, Hajdú and Heves. The river Tisza formed the southeastern border, and the river Sajó flowed through the county. Its area was 3629 km² around 1910.

Borsod is one of the oldest counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the early history of the Kingdom of Hungary each county (in Latin comitatus) formed around a castle (the majority of these castles were motte castles; most of the stone-built castles were constructed after the Mongol invasion of Hungary in the mid-13th century). The castle – which stood near modern-day Edelény – bore the name of its first steward, Bors, who lived during the reigns of either High Prince Géza or his son Stephen I. In old Hungarian language the -d suffix was a derivational suffix for place names, thus "Borsod" means "(a place) belonging to Bors". The name bors is of Turkish origin and means "pepper" both in old and modern Hungarian language (though in modern Hungarian it is not used as a personal name).

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