Esztergom County (, , , ) was a historic administrative county of the
Kingdom of Hungary in present-day southern
Slovakia and northern
Hungary on both sides of the
Danube river.
Geography
Esztergom County shared borders with the counties (), , and (Komárno). Its territory comprised a 15 km strip to the west of the lower part of the
Hron river and continued some 10 km south of the
Danube river. Its area was 1077 km² around 1910.
Capitals
The capital of the county was the
Esztergom Castle and the town of
Esztergom, then from 1543 onwards - when the territory became part of the
Ottoman Empire - the capital was outside the county (e. g. 1605-1663 in
Érsekújvár), and finally from 1714 onwards the capital was the town of
Esztergom.
History
A predecessor of the county existed as early as in the 9th century, when
Esztergom (called
Ostrihom at that time) was one of the most important castles of
Great Moravia. The Esztergom county as a
comitatus arose at the end of the 10th century as one of the first comitatus of the
Kingdom of Hungary. The county had a special status in that since 1270 its heads were at the same time the
archbishops of Esztergom.
In the aftermath of
World War I, the part of Esztergom county north of the
Danube became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in the 1920
Treaty of Trianon. The southern part remained in
Hungary and merged with the southern part of
Komárom county to form......
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