Pozsony County

Pozsony County
Comitatus Posoniensis (Latin)
Pozsony vármegye (Hungarian)
Komitat Pressburg (German)
Prešporská župa (Slovak)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(c. 1000-1923)
Coat of arms of Pozsony
Coat of arms

CapitalPozsony
Area
 • Coordinates48°9′N 17°7′E / 48.150°N 17.117°E / 48.150; 17.117
 
• 1910
4,370 km2 (1,690 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
389,750
History 
• Established
c. 1000
• Treaty of Trianon
4 June 1920
• Merged into Győr-Moson-Pozsony County
1923
Today part ofSlovakia
(4,323 km2)
Hungary
(47 km2)
Bratislava is the current name of the capital.

Pozsony county was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now mostly part of Slovakia, while a small area belongs to Hungary. In 1969, the three villages that remained in Hungary were combined to form Dunasziget.

Its name changed along with that of the city of Pressburg (Hungarian: Pozsony, today's Bratislava). Its names around 1900 were Pozsony vármegye in Hungarian, Prešpurská župa in Slovak and Preßburger Gespanschaft in German.


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