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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 .

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15-637: Zemplén may refer to: Zemplén County , a historical region of the Kingdom of Hungary the part of the historical region in present-day Hungary, now part of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county Géza Zemplén , Hungarian chemist Győző Zemplén , hungarian physicist See also [ edit ] Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Zemplén Mountains (in Hungary) Zemplín (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

30-502: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Zempl%C3%A9n County 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

45-532: The Nagykunság (part of the Jászkunság from 1745), as well as a small section of border with Békés . This territory largely became part of Hajdú when it was established in 1876. The Hajdúkerület  [ hu ] (' Hajdú district', not to be confused with the later Hajdú county) existed mostly as an enclave of Szabolcs, with some exclaves lying between Szabolcs and Bihar. In the 1850 reforms which followed

60-550: The revolutions of 1848 the Hajdú district was attached to Szabolcs. In the reforms of 1854 Szabolcs lost its western territory, including the Hajdúkerület and the later Dada alsó district (the salient along the Tisza) to the newly-established North Bihar county. The traditional counties of Hungary were restored in 1860, reversing these changes. Szabolcs is one of the oldest counties of

75-451: 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 . In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Zemplén county were: The towns of Sátoraljaújhely , Sárospatak , Tokaj and Szerencs are now in Hungary, except for a small northern part (about a quarter) of Sátoraljaújhely to

90-503: The Kingdom of Hungary. In the 17th century, the towns of Hajdú separated from the county, creating the Hajdú district. The capital of Szabolcs County was initially Szabolcs (now a village), later Nagykálló took over this role (1747-1867), and since 1867 the capital was moved to Nyíregyháza . In the 18th and early 19th century Szabolcs was part of the Circulus/Districtus Trans-Tibiscanus ('circle/district beyond

105-616: The Tisza district were passed to Czechoslovakia . These villages were returned to Hungary between 1938 and 1945, but were passed to the Soviet Union afterwards (they are part of Ukraine since 1991). In 1950, the county was disestablished and Szabolcs-Szatmár County was created, which included most of its territory, while some parts of it were passed to the newly created Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Hajdú-Bihar counties (area around Polgár and north-east of Debrecen ). In 1990, Szabolcs-Szatmár County

120-492: The Tisza'), one of four such districts within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1850 to 1860 Szabolcs was part of the Military District of Großwardein . After World War I , it was merged with a very small part of the former Ung County to form Szabolcs-Ung county, with Nyíregyháza as the capital. However, the villages of Eszeny (present-day Esen), Szalóka (present-day Solovka) and Tiszaágtelek (present-day Tisaahtelek) in

135-564: 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). Zemplén was one of

150-448: The late 19th and early 20th centuries Szabolcs county shared borders with the counties of Borsod , Zemplén , Ung , Bereg , Szatmár , Bihar and Hajdú . It was situated mostly south of the river Tisza . Its area was 4,637 km (1,790 sq mi) around 1910. Prior to the Hungarian administrative reforms of 1876 Szabolcs controlled some additional territory to the south-west giving it borders with Heves and Külső-Szolnok and

165-626: The northeast of the Ronyva ( Rožňava ) stream in Slovakia, now a small village with its own artificial Slovak name Slovenské Nové Mesto . Szabolcs County Szabolcs was an administrative county ( comitatus ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Its territory is now part of Hungary , except for three villages which are in the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine . The capital of the county was Nyíregyháza . In

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180-707: 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

195-649: 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 km around 1910. 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

210-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Zemplén . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zemplén&oldid=1236824397 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

225-433: Was renamed to Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. Nyíregyháza , the capital of Szabolcs County, was founded around 1750 as a Slovak Lutheran settlement, and had an ethnic Slovak majority until the latter part of the 19th century, when the population became Magyarized . Also, Szabolcs County had a sizeable population of Greek Catholics , who were of Ruthenian and Romanian origin and who became almost entirely Magyarized by

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