Győr county was a historic administrative county (comitatus

Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary)

A county is the name of a type of administrative units in the Kingdom of Hungary and in Hungary from the 10th century until the present day....

) of the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

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 in present-day north-western Hungary

Hungary

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 (95%) and south-western Slovakia

Slovakia

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 (about 5%), mostly on the right (south) side of the Danube

Danube

The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....

 river. The capital of the county was the city of Győr

Gyor

-Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...

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Geography

Győr county shared borders with the counties Moson

Moson

Moson was a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day eastern Austria and northwestern Hungary, on the right side of the Danube river...

, Pozsony, Komárom

Komárom county

Komárom county was a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day southern Slovakia and north-western Hungary on both sides of the...

, Veszprém

Veszprém (county)

Veszprém is the name of an administrative county in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county.-Veszprém county:...

 and Sopron

Sopron (county)

Sopron is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day eastern Austria and northwestern Hungary. The capital of the county was Sopron.- Geography :...

. The rivers Danube

Danube

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, and Rába

Rába

The Rába is a river in southeastern Austria and western Hungary and a right tributary of the Danube. Its source is in Austria, some kilometres east of Bruck an der Mur below Heubodenhöhe Hill. It flows through the Austrian states of Styria and Burgenland, and the Hungarian counties of Vas and...

 run through the county. Its area was 1534 km² around 1910.

History

The Győr comitatus arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

. It was conquered by the Turks in 1541, and again by the Austrians-Hungarians around 1598.

In 1920 the Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

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 assigned a very small part of the territory of the county to Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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. The rest stayed in Hungary

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 and merged with the eastern part of Moson

Moson

Moson was a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day eastern Austria and northwestern Hungary, on the right side of the Danube river...

 county and a very small part of Pozsony county to form Győr-Moson-Pozsony county.

After World War II, Győr-Moson-Pozsony county merged with Sopron (County)

Sopron (county)

Sopron is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day eastern Austria and northwestern Hungary. The capital of the county was Sopron.- Geography :...

 to form Győr-Sopron

Gyor-Moson-Sopron

Győr-Moson-Sopron is the name of an administrative county in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia and Austria. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Komárom-Esztergom, Veszprém and Vas. The capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron county is Győr...

 county. This county was renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron

Gyor-Moson-Sopron

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 county in the early 1990s. The part of the county north of the river Danube

Danube

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 is now in Slovakia

Slovakia

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, Trnava Region

Trnava Region

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Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Puszta	Győrszentmárton (renamed Pannonhalma Pannonhalma Pannonhalma is a town in western Hungary, in Győr-Moson-Sopron county with approximately 4,000 inhabitants. It is about from Győr. Archduke Otto Habsburg's heart is kept at the Pannonhalma Archabbey, while his body was laid at the Capuchin Crypt in the old Imperial capital of Vienna.-History:The... )
Sokoróalja	Tét Tét Tét is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary....
Tószigetcsilizköz	Győr Gyor -Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Győr Gyor -Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...