Hont County
| Hont County Comitatus Hontiensis (Latin) Hont vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Hont (German) Hontianska župa (Slovak) |
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| County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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Ipolyság 48°4′N 18°57′E / 48.067°N 18.950°ECoordinates: 48°4′N 18°57′E / 48.067°N 18.950°E |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 15th century | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | 4 June 1920 | |||
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| • | 1910 | 2,633 km2(1,017 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 132,441 | |||
| Density | 50.3 /km2 (130.3 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of | Slovakia, Hungary | ||||
| Šahy is the current name of the capital. | |||||
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Hont (-Hungarian and Slovak and German, in Latin: Honthum, in Hungarian also: Honth) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary and then shortly of Czechoslovakia. Its territory is now in southern Slovakia (3/4) and northern Hungary (1/4).
Today, in Slovakia Hont is the informal designation of the corresponding territory.
Hont county shared borders with the counties Bars, Zólyom, Nógrád, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and Esztergom. It was situated between Selmecbánya and the Danube river, but the territory around the town of Korpona was added only at the end of the 19th century. The rivers Korpona and Ipoly were the central rivers that flowed through the county. Its area was 2633 km² around 1910.
The capitals of the county were the Hont Castle together with Hídvég (present-day Ipeľské Predmostie), then from the 16th century onwards there was no permanent capital, and finally since early 19th century, the capital was Ipolyság (present-day Šahy).
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