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Zemplén County

Coordinates: 48°23′N 21°39′E / 48.383°N 21.650°E / 48.383; 21.650
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Zemplén County
Comitatus Zemplinensis (Latin)
Zemplén vármegye (Hungarian)
Komitat Semplin (German)
Zemplínska župa (Slovak)
Комітат Земплін (Rusyn)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(11th century-1544)
County of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
(1544-1570)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1570-1621)
County of the Principality of Transylvania
(1621-1629)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1629-1645)
County of the Principality of Transylvania
(1645-1648)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1648-1946)
County of the Second Hungarian Republic
(1946-1949)
County of the Hungarian People's Republic
(1949-1950)
Coat of arms of Zemplén
Coat of arms

CapitalZemplén; Sátoraljaújhely (1685-1950)
Area
 • Coordinates48°23′N 21°39′E / 48.383°N 21.650°E / 48.383; 21.650
 
• 1910
6,282 km2 (2,425 sq mi)
• 1930
1,776 km2 (686 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
343,194
• 1930
146,318
History 
• Established
11th century
• Treaty of Trianon
4 June 1920
• Merged into Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
16 March 1950
Today part ofSlovakia
(4,506 km2)
Hungary
(1,776 km2)

Zemplén (Hungarian: Zemplén, Slovak: Zemplín, German: Semplin, Semmlin, Latin: Zemplinum) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The northern part of its territory is now situated in eastern Slovakia (Zemplín region), while a smaller southern portion of the former county belongs to Hungary, as part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.

Geography

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Map of Zemplén, 1891.

Zemplén county shared borders with Poland (during some periods the with the Austrian crownland Galicia) and the Hungarian counties Sáros, Abaúj-Torna, Borsod, Szabolcs and Ung. It was situated in the easternmost strip of what is now Slovakia (except for the region between Vihorlatské vrchy and the Latorica river), plus a strip along the Bodrog and Tisza rivers in present-day Hungary. The rivers Laborc and Bodrog flowed through the county. Its area was 6,269 km2 around 1910.

Capitals

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Initially, the capital of the county was the Zemplín Castle (Hungarian: Zempléni vár, Slovak: Zemplínsky hrad), in the 13th century also Sárospatak (in Slovak: Potok, meaning stream, brook, hence the alternative name of the county comitatus de Potok). Since the Late Middle Ages the capital was the town of Zemplén, and since 1748 was Sátoraljaújhely (which is now divided between Slovakia and Hungary by the Ronyva/Roňava stream; the Hungarian part is known in Slovak as Nové Mesto pod Šiatrom and the Slovak part is now a separate village called Slovenské Nové Mesto).

Borsod-Gömör, Abaúj, and Zemplén counties after World War II. In 1950, the three counties were merged to form the modern Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. (1) Nógrád-Hont County (2) territories assigned from Szabolcs County to Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. (3) territories assigned from Borsod-Gömör County to Heves County. (5) the city of Debrecen (urban county).

History

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Zemplén was one of the oldest counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the aftermath of World War I, in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon the northern part of Zemplén county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia. The southern half (including the bigger part of the divided Sátoraljaújhely) stayed in Hungary as the county of Zemplén. Following the provisions of the First Vienna Award, an additional part became part of Hungary again in November 1938. The Trianon borders were restored after World War II, and the Hungarian county Zemplén merged with Abaúj, the most of Borsod-Gömör and a little part of Szabolcs counties to form the present Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.

Demographics

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Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
Population by mother tongue[a]
Census Total Hungarian Slovak Ruthenian German Other or unknown
1880[1] 275,175 119,656 (44.73%) 102,730 (38.40%) 30,207 (11.29%) 12,977 (4.85%) 1,932 (0.72%)
1890[2] 299,197 141,188 (47.19%) 107,477 (35.92%) 31,036 (10.37%) 15,511 (5.18%) 3,985 (1.33%)
1900[3] 327,993 174,107 (53.08%) 106,114 (32.35%) 34,831 (10.62%) 8,072 (2.46%) 4,869 (1.48%)
1910[4] 343,194 193,794 (56.47%) 92,943 (27.08%) 39,033 (11.37%) 9,749 (2.84%) 7,675 (2.24%)
Population by religion[b]
Census Total Roman Catholic Greek Catholic Calvinist Jewish Lutheran Other or unknown
1880 275,175 100,091 (36.37%) 83,696 (30.42%) 53,252 (19.35%) 31,622 (11.49%) 6,416 (2.33%) 98 (0.04%)
1890 299,197 110,982 (37.09%) 92,220 (30.82%) 58,671 (19.61%) 30,491 (10.19%) 6,780 (2.27%) 53 (0.02%)
1900 327,993 123,967 (37.80%) 101,053 (30.81%) 64,457 (19.65%) 31,533 (9.61%) 6,807 (2.08%) 176 (0.05%)
1910 343,194 132,395 (38.58%) 103,118 (30.05%) 67,557 (19.68%) 33,041 (9.63%) 6,822 (1.99%) 261 (0.08%)

Subdivisions

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In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Zemplén county were:

Districts (járás)
District Capital
  Bodrogköz Királyhelmec (now Kráľovský Chlmec)
  Gálszécs Gálszécs (now Sečovce)
  Homonna Homonna (now Humenné)
  Mezőlaborc Mezőlaborc (now Medzilaborce)
  Nagymihály Nagymihály (now Michalovce)
  Sárospatak Sárospatak
  Sátoraljaújhely Sátoraljaújhely
  Szerencs Szerencs
  Szinna Szinna (now Snina)
  Sztropkó Sztropkó (now Stropkov)
  Tokaj Tokaj
  Varannó Varannó (now Vranov nad Topľou)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
  Sátoraljaújhely

The towns of Sátoraljaújhely, Sárospatak, Tokaj and Szerencs are now in Hungary, except for a small northern part (about a quarter) of Sátoraljaújhely to the northeast of the Ronyva (Rožňava) stream in Slovakia, now a small village with its own artificial Slovak name Slovenské Nové Mesto.

Notable people

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Notes

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  1. ^ Only linguistic communities > 1% are displayed.
  2. ^ Only religious communities > 1% are displayed.

References

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  1. ^ "Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  2. ^ "A Magyar Korona országainak helységnévtára (1892)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  3. ^ "A MAGYAR KORONA ORSZÁGAINAK 1900". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  4. ^ "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.