Vas County

"Vas" redirects here. For other uses, see Vas (disambiguation).
Vas County

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Country Hungary
Region Western Transdanubia
County seat Szombathely
Area
  Total 3,336.14 km2 (1,288.09 sq mi)
Population (2011 census)
  Total 256,629
  Density 77/km2 (200/sq mi)
Website www.vasmegye.hu

Vas (German: Eisenburg, Slovene: Železna županija or županija Železna, Croatian: Željezna županija) is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. The county is a part of the Centrope Project.

Geography

Vas county lies in western Hungary. It shares borders with Austria and Slovenia and the Hungarian counties Győr-Moson-Sopron, Veszprém and Zala. The capital of Vas county is Szombathely. Its area is 3,336 km².

History

Main article: Vas (former county)

Vas is also the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in western Hungary, eastern Austria and eastern Slovenia. The capital of the county was Szombathely.

Vas county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the western part of the county became part of the new Austrian land Burgenland, and a smaller part in the southwest, known as Vendvidék became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). In the Vendvidék in 1919 was founded an unrecognized state the Prekmurje Republic, alike in Burgenland the Lajtabánság. The remainder stayed in Hungary, as the present Hungarian county Vas. 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.

Since 1991, when Slovenia became independent from Yugoslavia, the Yugoslavian part of former Vas county (around Murska Sobota) is part of Slovenia.

The Vas county is home to a small Slovene minority, which lives in the area between the town of Szentgotthárd and the Slovenian border (see Hungarian Slovenes).

Regional structure

City with county rights

Cities and towns

(ordered by population, according to the 2001 census)

Villages

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Presidents of the General Assembly

Name Period
Gyula Pusztai 1990 - 1998
Péter Markó 1998 - 2006
Ferenc Kovács 2006 - 2014
László Majthényi 2014 - present

References

Coordinates: 47°10′N 16°45′E / 47.167°N 16.750°E / 47.167; 16.750

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