Esztergom (county)
| Esztergom County Comitatus Stringoniensis (Latin) Esztergom vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Gran (German) |
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| County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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Esztergom 47°48′N 18°45′E / 47.800°N 18.750°ECoordinates: 47°48′N 18°45′E / 47.800°N 18.750°E |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 9th century | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | June 4, 1920 | |||
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| • | 1910 | 1,077 km2(416 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 90,800 | |||
| Density | 84.3 /km2 (218.4 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of | Slovakia, Hungary | ||||
Esztergom County (Latin: comitatus Stringoniensis, Hungarian: Esztergom (vár)megye, Slovak: Ostrihomský komitát / Ostrihomská stolica / Ostrihomská župa, German: Graner Gespanschaft / Komitat Gran) was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lies today in present-day southern Slovakia and northern Hungary on both sides of the Danube river.
Esztergom County shared borders with the counties Bars, Hont, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and Komárom. Its territory comprised a 15 km strip to the west of the lower part of the Garam river and continued some 10 km south of the Danube river. Its area was 1077 km² around 1910.
The capital of the county was the Esztergom Castle and the town of Esztergom, then from 1543 onwards – when the territory became part of the Ottoman Empire – the capital was outside the county (e. g. 1605–1663 in Érsekújvár), and finally from 1714 onwards the capital was the town of Esztergom.
A predecessor of the county existed as early as in the 9th century, when Esztergom (Slovak: Ostrihom) was one of the most important castles of Great Moravia. The Esztergom county as a comitatus arose at the end of the 10th century as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. The county had a special status in that since 1270 its heads were at the same time the archbishops of Esztergom.
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