Fejér (former county)

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Fejér County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

11th century – 1946

Capital

Székesfehérvár

History

- Established

11th century

- Disestablished

1946

Area

- 1910

4,129 km² (1,594 sq mi)

Population

- 1910 est.

250,600

Density

60.7 /km² (157.2 /sq mi)

Today part of

Hungary

Fejér (in Latin: comitatus Albensis) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was slightly smaller than that of present Fejér county, is presently in central Hungary. The capital of the county was Székesfehérvár.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Demographics
4 Subdivisions

[edit] Geography

Fejér county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Veszprém, Komárom, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and Tolna. It lay south-west of Budapest, around Székesfehérvár. The river Danube formed most of its eastern border. Its area was 4129 km² around 1910.

Map of the former Fejér county (Kingdom of Hungary) around 1910

[edit] History

Fejér county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century. The Solt region, east of the Danube river, which used to be part of Fejér county, went to Pest-Pilis-Solt county in the 17th century.

After World War II the region south-east of Lake Balaton (around Enying), which used to be in Veszprém county, went to Fejér county. The city of Érd and its surroundings went to Pest county.

[edit] Demographics

Ethnic groups (1891):

Hungarians (Magyars): 190,660 (85.7%)
Germans: 26,077 (11.7%)
Slovaks: 2924 (1.3%)
Serbs: 2103 (0.9%)

Total population: 222,445

[edit] Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Fejér county were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Adony	Adony
Mór	Mór
Sárbogárd	Sárbogárd
Székesfehérvár	Székesfehérvár
Vál	Vál
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Székesfehérvár