Abov (Hungarian: ''Abaúj'') is historically the Slovak name of

Abaúj County Abaúj (, , or ) is a historic administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. In parts of the 19th century, and in the beginning of the 20th century, it was united with Torna County to form Abaúj-To ...

in the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

. Today, it is an informal designation of the part of that county situated in Slovakia, as well as the official name of one of Slovakia's tourist regions (situated in that territory). The southern half of the former county is part of modern

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

Geography

Abov is situated some 20 km to both sides along the Hornád river () around

Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

History

The (whole) county arose in the second half of the 13th century from the ''comitatus Novi Castri'' (named after ''Novum Castrum'', today

Abaújvár Abaújvár is a village in northeastern Hungary, next to the Slovakia, Slovak border. It lies northeast of Miskolc, and 18 km south of Košice (Kassa), Slovakia. Name The first part of the name shows that the medieval castle was owned by t ...

), which also included the later counties Sáros and Heves counties. In 1882, the county was merged with the small

Torna County Torna ( Slovak: ''Turňa'', Latin and Hungarian: ''Torna'', ) is the name of a historic administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was located in present-day southeastern Slovakia and northern Hungary Hungary is a ...

and has existed as the Abaúj-Torna county since. This county previously existed temporarily in 1785-1790 and 1848-1859. In 1920, the northern half of the county (including

) became part of newly formed

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

and continued to exist as an administrative unit till 1922 (''Abovskoturnianska župa''). By the

First Vienna Award The First Vienna Award was a treaty signed on 2 November 1938 pursuant to the Vienna Arbitration, which took place at Vienna's Belvedere Palace. The arbitration and award were direct consequences of the previous month's Munich Agreement, whic ...

most of the Czechoslovak part of the county was returned to Hungary and added to the county of Abaúj-Torna, with

() as capital. After World War II, the pre-war border was restored.

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