Nógrád ( Hungarian; la, comitatus Neogradiensis, german: Neuburg or ', sk, Novohrad) was an administrative county (') of the

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. Its territory is now divided between

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and

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. The name ' is still used in Slovakia as an informal designation of the corresponding territory. The name is derived from the former castle in Hungary.

Geography

In 1910, Nógrád county shared borders with the counties of Hont, Zólyom, Gömör-Kishont,

Heves Heves is a small town in eastern Hungary. About 100 km east of Budapest, Heves lies at the northern extreme of the Great Hungarian Plain, just south of the Mátra and Bükk hills and west of the Tisza River. Heves gave its name to the Heves ...

and

Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun is the name of an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Hungary, comprising the territory of the present Hungarian county Pest and the northern part of present Bács-K ...

. It was situated approximately along the line

Poltár Poltár is a town and municipality in the Poltár District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia. Geography The town is located in the Southern Slovak basin near the river Ipeľ, south of the Revúcka Hills, which is part of the Slovak Ore M ...

, Losonc (today Lučenec), Szécsény and

Vác Vác (; german: Waitzen; sk, Vacov; yi, ווייצען) is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''. Location Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank o ...

. The river Ipoly (Slovak: Ipeľ) flowed through the county. Its area was 4,133 km² around 1910.

Capitals

The capital of the county was Balassagyarmat, except for the 18th century, when the capital was Losonc.

History

Nógrád was one of the first counties of the Kingdom of Hungary, founded in the 11th century. Large part of its territory was ruled by the

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from 1541 to 1595, and from 1605 to 1686, as part of Budin Province and Eğri Province. In the aftermath of

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, the part of Nógrád county north of the river Ipeľ/Ipoly became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia (as Novohrad county), as recognized by the concerned states in 1920 by the

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It forma ...

. The southern part stayed in Hungary and was merged with the Hungarian part of Hont county to form Nógrád-Hont County in 1923. Following the provisions of the

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, the northern half of the county was redeemed thus and the county had was recreated in 1938. After World War II, the Trianon borders and Nógrád-Hont County were restored. In 1950 the

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was again recreated after some of its parts were passed to the newly formed Pest County and the reorganized

Heves County Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun ...

. In 1993,

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dissolved and Novohrad became part of independent Slovakia. Since 1996, it has been part of the Slovak administrative unit Banska Bystrica region.

Demographics

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Nógrád county were: Nógrád county administrative map

The municipalities of

Lučenec Lučenec (; german: Lizenz; hu, Losonc; yi, לאשאנץ; la, Lutetia HungarorumLelkes György (1992), Magyar helységnév-azonosító szótár, Balassi Kiadó, Budapest, 508 p.) is a town in the Banská Bystrica Region of south-central Slovaki ...

, Fiľakovo and

Halič Halič (german: Geschatz; hu, Gács) is a village and municipality in the Lučenec District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia. History In historical records, the village was first mentioned in 1299 (''Gach'') in the records of the Kin ...

are now in Slovakia. Balassagyarmat vármegyeháza 2

Notes

References

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