Moson ( German: Wieselburg, Slovak: Mošon) was an administrative county (

comitatus ''Comitatus'' was in ancient times the Latin term for an armed escort or retinue. The term is used especially in the context of Germanic warrior culture for a warband tied to a leader by an oath of fealty and describes the relations between a lo ...

) of the

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, situated mostly on the right (south) side of the Danube river. Its territory is now divided between

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and

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, except a small area which is part of

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

. Moson is also the name of a town, nowadays part of the city Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary.

Geography

Moson county shared borders with the

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and the Hungarian counties

Pozsony Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approximately 140% of ...

Győr Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia region, and – halfway between Budapest and Vienna – situated on one of ...

and

Sopron Sopron (; german: Ödenburg, ; sl, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century When the area that is today Western Hungary was a province of the Roman Empire, a ...

. The river Danube runs along the north of the county, and the

Lake Neusiedl Lake Neusiedl (german: Neusiedler See), or Fertő ( hu, Fertő (tó); hr, Nežidersko jezero, Niuzaljsko jezero; sl, Nežidersko jezero; sk, Neziderské jazero; cs, Neziderské jezero) is the largest endorheic lake in Central Europe, strad ...

(Hungarian: Fertő tó) lies partly in the county. Its area was 2013 km² around 1910.

Capitals

The capital of the county was the town of Moson initially. The capital was moved to nearby Magyaróvár in the Middle Ages. Moson and Magyaróvár merged in 1939 to form the city of Mosonmagyaróvár.

History

The Moson comitatus arose as one of the first comitatuses of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1920 by the

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It forma ...

a tiny part of Moson county close to Pressburg (Pozsony, today's Bratislava) became part of newly formed

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. The eastern part stayed in Hungary and merged with

county and a very small part of

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to form Győr-Moson-Pozsony county. The western part became part of the new

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(formed in 1921). Three villages – Dunacsún, (

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), Horvátjárfalu (

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), and Oroszvár (

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) – became part of Czechoslovakia. Győr, Moson és Pozsony

After

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, Győr-Moson-Pozsony county merged with

Sopron County Sopron (German: ''Ödenburg'') was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now divided between Austria and Hungary. The capital of the county was Sopron. Geography Sopron county shared borders with the A ...

to form Győr-Sopron county. This county was renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron county in the early 1990s. Győr-Sopron 1950

Demographics

1900

In 1900, the county had a population of 89,714 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities: Total: * German: 54,508 (60.7%) * Hungarian: 25,991 (29.0%) * Croatian: 8,017 (8.9%) * Slovak: 589 (0.7%) * Romanian: 21 (0.0%) * Serbian: 3 (0.0%) * Ruthenian: 1 (0.0%) * Other or unknown: 584 (0.7%) According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities: Total: *

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: 77,934 (86.9%) *

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

: 9,309 (10.4%) *

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

: 2,180 (2,4) *

Calvinist Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...

: 256 (0.3%) *

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: 19 (0.0%) * Unitarian: 8 (0.0%) *

Greek Orthodox The term Greek Orthodox Church ( Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also cal ...

: 4 (0.0%) * Other or unknown: 4 (0.0%)

1910

In 1910, the county had a population of 94,479 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities: Total: * German: 51,997 (55.0%) * Hungarian: 33,006 (34.9%) * Croatian: 8,123 (8.6%) * Slovak: 735 (0.8%) * Ruthenian: 7 (0.0%) * Romanian: 5 (0.0%) * Serbian: 2 (0.0%) * Other or unknown: 604 (0.7%) According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities: Total: *

: 82,636 (87.5%) *

: 9,551 (10.1%) *

: 1,881 (2,0) *

: 355 (0.4%) *

: 37 (0.0%) *

: 12 (0.0%) * Unitarian: 5 (0.0%) * Other or unknown: 2 (0.0%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Moson county were: Neusiedl am See is now in Austria.

References

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