Csongrád County (former)
| Csongrád County | |||||
| County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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| Capital | Szentes Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 12th century | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | June 4, 1920 | |||
| Area | |||||
| • | 1910 | 3,569 km2 (1,378 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 325,568 | |||
| Density | 91.2 /km2 (236.3 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of | Hungary, Serbia | ||||
Csongrád (Hungarian: Csongrád, Serbian: Čongrad or Чонград) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was smaller than that of present Csongrád county, is now in southern Hungary and northern Serbia. The capital of the county was Szentes.
Name
The name Csongrád/Čongrad is Slavic by origin. In Slavic languages, this name means "a black city" (čon/čorni = black, grad = city/town). Indeed, the county was named after a town of Csongrád.
Geography
Csongrád county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Békés, Csanád, Torontál and Bács-Bodrog. The river Tisza flowed through the county. Its area was 3,544 km² around 1910.
History
Csongrád county arose in the 11th century as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was taken by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, and by the Habsburg Monarchy in the end of the 17th century.
In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon assigned a small part of the territory of the county (a small area around Horgoš in northern Vojvodina) to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). The rest remained in Hungary.
After World War II, the southern part of former Csanád-Arad-Torontál county (the Hungarian part of pre-1918 Torontál county and the south-western part of pre-1918 Csanád county) was added to Csongrád county.
Demographics
1900
In 1900, the county had a population of 296,111 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:[1]
Total:
- Hungarian: 290,137 (98,0%)
- German: 3,582 (1,2%)
- Serbian: 889 (0,3%)
- Slovak: 564 (0,2%)
- Romanian: 423 (0,1%)
- Croatian: 81 (0,0%)
- Ruthenian: 8 (0,0%)
- Other or unknown: 427 (0,1%)
According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:[2]
Total:
- Roman Catholic: 216,777 (73,2%)
- Calvinist: 61,315 (20,7%)
- Jewish: 9,537 (3,2%)
- Lutheran: 4,838 (1,6%)
- Greek Orthodox: 2,068 (0,7%)
- Greek Catholic: 603 (0,2%)
- Unitarian: 484 (0,2%)
- Other or unknown: 489 (0,2%)
1910
In 1910, the county had a population of 325,568 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:[3]
Total:
- Hungarian: 319,274 (98,1%)
- German: 2,862 (0,9%)
- Serbian: 1,235 (0,4%)
- Romanian: 773 (0,2%)
- Slovak: 646 (0,2%)
- Croatian: 94 (0,0%)
- Ruthenian: 11 (0,0%)
- Other or unknown: 673 (0,2%)
According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:[4]
Total:
- Roman Catholic: 243,343 (74,7%)
- Calvinist: 61,832 (19,0%)
- Jewish: 10,296 (3,2%)
- Lutheran: 5,449 (1,7%)
- Greek Orthodox: 2,828 (0,9%)
- Greek Catholic: 857 (0,3%)
- Unitarian: 547 (0,1%)
- Other or unknown: 416 (0,1%)
Subdivisions
In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Csongrád county were:
| Districts (járás) | |
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| District | Capital |
| Csongrád | Csongrád |
| Tiszáninnen | Kiskundorozsma |
| Tiszántúl | Mindszent |
| Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város) | |
| Hódmezővásárhely | |
| Szeged | |
| Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város) | |
| Szentes | |
