Győr county (in Hungarian: ''Győr (vár)megye'') was an administrative county (

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) of the

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, situated mostly on the right (south) side of the

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river. Its territory is now part of

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, except seven villages on the left side of the Danube which belong to

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. The capital of the county was the city of

Győr Győr ( , ; ; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia region, and – halfwa ...

Geography

Győr county shared borders with the counties

Moson Moson (German: Wieselburg, Slovak: Mošon) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary, situated mostly on the right (south) side of the Danube river. Its territory is now divided between Austria and Hungary, except a sma ...

Pozsony Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...

Komárom Komárom (Hungarian: ; or ; , later ; ) is a city in Hungary on the south bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom County. Komárom fortress played an important role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and many contemporary English sources r ...

Veszprém Veszprém (; , , , ) is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county of the same name. Etymology The city's name derives ...

and

Sopron Sopron (; , ) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century In the Iron Age a hilltop settlement with a burial ground existed in the neighbourhood of Sopron-Várhely. When ...

. The rivers Danube, and

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run through the county. Its area was 1534 km² around 1910.

History

The Győr comitatus arose as one of the first comitatus of the

. Its southern part was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1543. The Ottoman Empire meant a constant threat to the Habsburg

therefore the Habsburg kings divided the kingdom's remaining territory into

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. The Captaincy of Győr was located between lake Balaton and river Danube. In 1594, the Ottomans captured the city Győr, however an Habsburg-Hungarian army reconquered it in 1598. The other parts of Győr County were liberated from Ottoman rule in the 1680s. In 1920 the

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (; ; ; ), often referred to in Hungary as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace Conference. It was signed on the one side by Hungary ...

assigned a very small part of the territory of the county to

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. The rest stayed in Hungary and merged with the eastern part of

county and a very small part of

county to form Győr-Moson-Pozsony county in 1923. The county became abolished after

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and Győr-Moson county was created instead. In 1950, Sopron county merged with Győr-Moson county to form Győr-Sopron county. This county was renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron in 1990. The part of the county north of the river Danube is now in Slovakia,

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Demographics

1900

In 1900, the county had a population of 126,188 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities: Total: * Hungarian: 122,925 (97.4%) *

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: 2,465 (2.0%) * Slovak: 216 (0.2%) * Croatian: 151 (0.1%) *

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * Pertaining to Serbia in Southeast Europe; in particular **Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans ** Serbian language ** Serbian culture **Demographics of Serbia, includes other ethnic groups within the co ...

: 27 (0.0%) *

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

: 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: Total: *

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: 94,939 (75.2%) *

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

: 15,902 (12.6%) *

Calvinist Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...

: 8,800 (7.0%) *

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: 6,403 (5.1%) *

Greek Orthodox Greek Orthodox Church (, , ) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian Churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Rom ...

: 70 (0.0%) *

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: 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: Total: * Hungarian: 132,991 (97.6%) *

: 2,023 (1.5%) * Slovak: 609 (0.5%) * Croatian: 109 (0.0%) *

: 17 (0.0%) *

: 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: Total: *

: 103,292 (75.8%) *

: 16,656 (12.2%) *

: 9,080 (6.7%) *

: 7,046 (5.2%) *

: 130 (0.0%) *

: 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:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gyor County States and territories established in 1790 States and territories disestablished in 1785 States and territories disestablished in 1920 States and territories disestablished in 1923 Counties in the Kingdom of Hungary