Temes County

Temes County
Comitatus Temesiensis (Latin)
Temes vármegye (Hungarian)
Komitat Temes (German)
Comitatul Timiș (Romanian)
Тамишка жупанија (Serbian)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(12th century-1526)
County of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
(1526-1552)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1779-1849, 1860-1920)
Coat of arms of Temes
Coat of arms

CapitalTemesvár
Area
 • Coordinates45°45′N 21°14′E / 45.750°N 21.233°E / 45.750; 21.233
 
• 1910
7,433 km2 (2,870 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
500,835
History 
• Established
12th century
• Ottoman conquest
26 July 1552
• County recreated
23 April 1779
• Disestablished
18 November 1849
• County recreated
27 December 1860
• Treaty of Trianon
4 June 1920
Today part ofRomania
(5,552 km2)
Serbia
(1,881 km2)
Timișoara is the current name of the capital.

County of Temes (Hungarian: Temes, Romanian: Timiș, Serbian: Тамиш or Tamiš, German: Temes or Temesch) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in southwestern Romania and northeastern Serbia. The capital of the county was Temesvár (Romanian: Timișoara, Serbian: Темишвар or Temišvar, German: Temeswar or Temeschwar), which also served as the kingdom's capital between 1315–1323.


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