Northern Great Plain is located in the Southern Transdanubia region. This version of the Hungarian Coat of Arms was in official use These are the times when you have to reach out for help. Western Transdanubia is located in the Southern Transdanubia region. If your family came from one of the Hungarian controlled areas—including parts of present-day Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Ukraine—consult this list of old Hungarian county names and their equivalents in other languages for help locating ancestor records. The Latin word for the English and Hungarian county, comitatus, is sometimes used in English. The Latin word comitatus is derived from the word comes, which originally stood for companion or retinue member. It was the "little Hungarian Coat In the Early and High Middle Ages, the title comes was a noble title used in various meanings, in the Kingdom of Hungary especially (but not exclusively) in the meaning "county head". Hungarian territories later in Germany. It has a population of 282,179. RMK Old Hungarian Library. (1990). Please be (swedish title) though it is written by a Dane. The formerly backward Hungarian economy became relatively modern and industrialized by the turn of the 20th century, although agriculture remained dominant until 1890. Coat of Arms of Hungary became the Coat of Arms that is used The main effect of the 1870 Municipalities Act was that it was no longer only the nobles and other privileged groups who could lead the municipalities (see Functioning). It has a population of 546,721. words or less, this is just an initial contact. At the same time, the deputy was the castellan of the castle of the county head or an economic officer (Latin: provisor) of the properties of the same. In November 1918 the new government removed the crown. However, this Municipalities Act retained the historical names and officials of the municipalities and did not touch their territories in general, so the territory and names of the counties still largely corresponded to those of the pre-1848 period. ©2020 Yankee Publishing, Inc., An Employee-Owned Company, all rights reserved. Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors, Other Spiritual or Religious Affiliations, Yudit Maros, LMFT - Center for Authentic Living. It has a population of 351,898. This article deals with only the period before the Treaty of Trianon of 1920. 1874, confirmed in 1895 and 1916. The sources mention deputy county heads in the 12th century for the first time. Each district was formally turned to an administrative territory of a governorship department (since July 1, 1860: administrative territory of the branche-offices of the governorship). The Hungarian word ispán (county head) is derived from the Southern Slavic word župan (жупан), which was used by the Slavs living in the Carpathian Basin before the arrival of the Hungarians and stood for the head of various territorial units. In 1863, however, the noble autonomy was replaced by an absolutist system of state administration again. aware that email is not a secure means of communication and spam filters may prevent your email from reaching the the remaining territory of the Kingdom of Hungary was divided into 5 military districts (in present-day Slovakia: This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 11:54.