Győr County

Győr County
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
1598–1920
Coat of arms
Capital		Győr 47°41′N 17°38′E / 47.683°N 17.633°ECoordinates: 47°41′N 17°38′E / 47.683°N 17.633°E
History
•	Established	1598
•	Treaty of Trianon	4 June 1920
Area
•	1910	1,534 km^2 (592 sq mi)
Population
•	1910	136,300
	Density	88.9 /km^2  (230.1 /sq mi)
Today part of		Slovakia, Hungary

Győr county (in Hungarian: Győr (vár)megye) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day north-western Hungary (95%) and south-western Slovakia (about 5%), mostly on the right (south) side of the Danube river. The capital of the county was the city of Győr.

Geography

Győr county shared borders with the counties Moson, Pozsony, Komárom, Veszprém and Sopron. The rivers Danube, and Rába run through the county. Its area was 1534 km² around 1910.

History

The Győr comitatus arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was conquered by the Turks in 1541, and again by the Austrians-Hungarians around 1598.

In 1920 the Treaty of Trianon assigned a very small part of the territory of the county to Czechoslovakia. The rest stayed in Hungary and merged with the eastern part of Moson county and a very small part of Pozsony county to form Győr-Moson-Pozsony county.

After World War II, Győr-Moson-Pozsony county merged with Sopron (County) to form Győr-Sopron county. This county was renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron county in the early 1990s. The part of the county north of the river Danube is now in Slovakia, Trnava Region.

Demographics

1900

Ethnic map of the county (with data of the 1910 census). Key: red - Hungarians; pink - Germans; light green - Slovaks. Coloured dots in plain rectangles imply the presence of smaller minority populations. Multicoloured rectangles imply cities and villages with multi-ethnic populations with the order of the stripes following the ethnic composition of the settlement.

In 1900, the county had a population of 126,188 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:^[1]

Total:

• Hungarian: 122,925 (97.4%)
• German: 2,465 (2.0%)
• Slovak: 216 (0.2%)
• Croatian: 151 (0.1%)
• Serbian: 27 (0.0%)
• Romanian: 16 (0.0%)
• Ruthenian: 2 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 386 (0.3%)

According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:^[2]

Total:

• Roman Catholic: 94,939 (75.2%)
• Lutheran: 15,902 (12.6%)
• Calvinist: 8,800 (7.0%)
• Jewish: 6,403 (5.1%)
• Greek Orthodox: 70 (0.0%)
• Greek Catholic: 61 (0.0%)
• Unitarian: 9 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 4 (0.0%)

1910

In 1910, the county had a population of 136,295 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:^[3]

Total:

• Hungarian: 132,991 (97.6%)
• German: 2,023 (1.5%)
• Slovak: 609 (0.5%)
• Croatian: 109 (0.0%)
• Serbian: 17 (0.0%)
• Romanian: 17 (0.0%)
• Ruthenian: 2 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 527 (0.4%)

According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:^[4]

Total:

• Roman Catholic: 103,292 (75.8%)
• Lutheran: 16,656 (12.2%)
• Calvinist: 9,080 (6.7%)
• Jewish: 7,046 (5.2%)
• Greek Catholic: 130 (0.0%)
• Greek Orthodox: 55 (0.0%)
• Unitarian: 18 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 18 (0.0%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Győr county were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Puszta	Győrszentmárton (renamed Pannonhalma)
Sokoróalja	Tét
Tószigetcsilizköz	Győr
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Győr

References

1. "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
2. "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
3. "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
4. "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-25.