Csanád was an administrative county ( comitatus ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Its territory is now part of Hungary , except for a small area which is part of Romania . The capital of the county was Makó .
15-511: Csanád county shared borders with the Hungarian counties of Csongrád , Békés , Arad and Torontál . The river Maros ( Mureș ) formed its southern border. Its area was 1,714 km around 1910. The county's territory became part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the first half of the 11th century when Stephen I of Hungary defeated Ajtony , the local ruler. The county got its name after the commander of
30-407: A small area in the southeast of the county (the town of Nădlac and the villages of Șeitin , Turnu and Dorobanți ) to Romania. The rest of the county was united with parts of Torontál county (a small area south of Szeged ) and Arad county (a small area south of Békéscsaba ) to form the new county of Csanád-Arad-Torontál in 1923. After World War II , the county was recreated, but in 1950 it
45-557: Is a historical and geographical region in Hungary situated in the current Bács-Kiskun County between Kalocsa and Szeged . Its territory is 2,423 km . Like other historical European regions called Cumania , it is named for the Cumans ( Hungarian : Kunok ), a historically very significant nomadic tribe. Its most defining feature is the sand dunes created by the flat area's windy nature, and bigger dunes being created by deposits of and
60-515: The Banat of Temeswar (until 1786). Until the mid-18th century the southern part of the county, including Szeged, had been part of the Military Frontier , which the rest of the county bordered. The river Tisza flowed through the county. Its area was 3,544 km (1,368 sq mi) around 1910. Csongrád county arose in the 11th century as one of the first counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. It
75-729: The Ottoman–Habsburg wars . In the Treaty of Karlowitz, the Ottoman Empire renounced its claims to the territories north of the Maros (Mureș) river. Csanád county was reorganized in the returned territories (with greatly reduced size than in medieval times). Makó became the seat of the reorganized county. After World War I , the county was occupied by the Romanian army. In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon assigned
90-706: The Slovaks lived in the district of Nagylak, the Romanians lived mostly in the districts of Nagylak and Battonya, while the Serbs lived in the district of Battonya. In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Csanád county were: The town of Nădlac is now in Romania; the other towns mentioned are now in Hungary. Heraldry [1] Csongr%C3%A1d (former county) Csongrád ( Hungarian : Csongrád , Serbian : Чонград , Čongrad )
105-503: The Tisza only around 3.2 km (2.0 mi) across. In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon assigned a small part of the territory of the county – a small area around Horgos (now Horgoš , Vojvodina ) in northern Délvidék – to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929); the rest remained in Hungary. During World War II , Hungary annexed the lost territory , but after
120-522: The early 20th century, the subdivisions of Csongrád county were: In the early 19th century Csongrád County was divided into two processus , which were separated by the Tisza : Processus Cis-Tybiscanus in the west and Processus Trans-Tybiscanus in the east. In 1854 Csongrád county comprised the following Bezirke (presented as they appear in the defining act): Kiskuns%C3%A1g Kiskunság ("Little Cumania", Latin : Cumania Minor )
135-437: The end of the war the previous borders were restored. In the 1950 reform of the Hungarian counties [ hu ] , the south-western part of Csanád County (which comprised the Hungarian part of pre-1920 Torontál County and the south-western part of pre-1920 Csanád County ) was added to Csongrád county; Kardoskút was transferred to Békés county. Csongrád County was renamed Csongrád-Csanád County on 4 June 2020. In
150-519: The late-19th and early-20th centuries Csongrád county shared borders with the Hungarian counties of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun , Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok , Békés , Csanád , Torontál and Bács-Bodrog . Prior to the reforms of the late-19th century it had shared borders with the Kiskunság / Jászkunság , Pest County, Heves County , the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar (1849-1860) and its predecessor
165-531: The period following the revolutions of 1848 (1849–1860), Csongrád was part of the Military District of Pest-Ofen . The county gained Kiskundorozsma with the abolition of the Jászkunság in 1876. Prior to that the area had formed a large salient (panhandle) mostly separating the southernmost area from the rest of the county; the two areas were connected by a small section of land between Kiskundorozsma and
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#1732863169481180-421: The royal army, Csanád . The king appointed Gerard of Csanád as the first bishop of Csanád. The county was initially much larger and included territories of the later Temes, Arad, and Torontál counties. The first seat of the county was Csanád (present-day Cenad , Romania). The county's territory became part of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. The settlement structure was almost completely destroyed during
195-436: Was an administrative county ( comitatus ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Its territory, which was smaller than that of present-day Csongrád-Csanád County , is now part of Hungary , except a very small area which belongs to Serbia . The capital of the county was Szentes . The county was named after a town of Csongrád , which has a Slavic origin, meaning "black city" ( čon/čorni = black, grad = city/town). In
210-419: Was divided between the Hungarian counties of Békés and Csongrád (since 4 June 2020, the latter was renamed to Csongrád-Csanád County ). The Romanian part of the former Csanád county is now part of Arad County . Csanád county was one of the most densely populated counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Hungarians formed an ethnic majority in every district except for the district of Nagylak. The main part of
225-566: Was taken by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, and reconquered by the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary at the end of the 17th century (recognised in the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz ). The southern part of the county, including Szeged, was part of the (Mureș) Military Frontier until the mid-18th century. On 1 June 1786 the county was merged with Békés and Csanád counties to form Békés-Csanád-Csongrád; they were re-separated in 1790. In
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