Torna (
Slovak: ''Turňa'',
Latin
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and
Hungarian: ''Torna'', ) is the name of a historic administrative county (
comitatus
Comitatus may refer to:
*Comitatus (warband), a Germanic warband who follow a leader
* ''Comitatus'', the office of a Roman or Frankish comes, translated as count.
* ''Comitatus'', translated as county, a territory such as governed by medieval cou ...
) of the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...
. It was located in present-day southeastern
Slovakia
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, 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 west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...
and northern
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
; today Turňa is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory in Slovakia.
The initially large county was one of the original counties in the Kingdom of Hungary, but was gradually reduced to a territory corresponding to a small territory around the
Turňa River Turna or Turňa may refer to:
Turňa
* Turňa (river), a river in Slovakia
* Turňa nad Bodvou, a village and municipality in Slovakia
** Turňa Castle, in Turňa nad Bodvou
* The Slavic name for Torna County, Kingdom of Hungary
Turna
* Turna (son ...
(). The capital of the county was
Turňa Castle
Turňa Castle (, ) is a castle in Turňa nad Bodvou, Košice Region, Slovakia.
References
Castles in Slovakia
Buildings and structures in Košice Region
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(), later the town of
Turňa nad Bodvou ().
From 1785 to 1790, 1848–1859, and ultimately in 1882 it was merged with the county
Abov to form the county
Abaúj-Torna (''Abov-Turňa'').
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Counties in the Kingdom of Hungary