Vas (former county)
| Vas County Comitatus Castriferreus (Latin) Vas vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Eisenburg (German) |
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| County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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| Capital |
Szombathely 47°14′N 16°37′E / 47.233°N 16.617°ECoordinates: 47°14′N 16°37′E / 47.233°N 16.617°E |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 12th century | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | June 4, 1920 | |||
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| • | 1910 | 5,474 km2(2,114 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 435,793 | |||
| Density | 79.6 /km2 (206.2 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of | Slovenia, Austria, Hungary | ||||
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Vas (German: Eisenburg, Slovene: Železna županija or Železna) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in western Hungary, eastern Austria and eastern Slovenia (Prekmurje). The capital of the county was Szombathely.
Vas County shared borders with the Austrian lands Lower Austria and Styria and the Hungarian counties Sopron, Veszprém and Zala. It stretched between the river Mura in the south, the foothills of the Alps in the west and the river Marcal in the east. The Rába River flowed through the county. Its area was 5472 km² around 1910.
Vas County arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary.
In 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon, the western part of the county became part of the new Austrian land Burgenland, and a small part in the southwest became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (from 1929 as Yugoslavia). The remainder stayed in Hungary, as the present Hungarian Vas County. A small part of former Sopron county went to Vas county. Some villages north of Zalaegerszeg went to Zala County, and a small region west of Pápa went to Veszprém County. Yugoslavian part of the county was occupied and annexed by Hungary between 1941 and 1945 during World War II.
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