Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County

Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County Comitatus Pestiensis et Pilisiensis et Soltensis et Cumania Minor Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun vármegye
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
1876–1946
Coat of arms
Capital		Budapest 47°30′N 19°2′E / 47.500°N 19.033°E / 47.500; 19.033Coordinates: 47°30′N 19°2′E / 47.500°N 19.033°E / 47.500; 19.033
History
•	Established	1876
•	Disestablished	1946
Area
•	1910	12,228 km2 (4,721 sq mi)
Population
•	1910	1,978,041
	Density	161.8 /km2  (419 /sq mi)
Today part of		Hungary

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-Kiskun county. The capital of the county was Budapest.

Geography

Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county shared borders with the counties Komárom, Esztergom, Hont, Nógrád, Heves, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Csongrád, Bács-Bodrog, Tolna and Fejér. Its territory covered the eastern bank of the river Danube from Visegrád in the north to (excluding) Baja in the south, stretching to the river Tisza in the east. A part of the county (Pilis) was on the west bank of the Danube, near Budapest. Its area was 12,228 km² around 1910.

History

The counties Pest and Pilis were formed in the 11th century. Pest was the area on the left (east) bank of the Danube around present-day Budapest, Pilis was on the opposite bank. They were united and became the political, cultural and economical centre of Hungary. The Solt region (the left bank of the Danube south of Ráckeve), which previously belonged to Fejér county, was incorporated in Pest-Pilis-Solt county in the 17th century. Kiskunság (Little Cumania) was added in 1876, creating Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county.

After World War II the county was split in two roughly equal parts. The northern part became Pest county, the southern part merged with Bács-Bodrog county to form Bács-Kiskun county.

Demographics

1900

In 1900, the county had a population of 1,615,729 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:^[1]

Total:

• Hungarian: 1,317,237 (81,5%)
• German: 201,285 (12,4%)
• Slovak: 58,533 (3,6%)
• Serbian: 6,199 (0,4%)
• Croatian: 2,372 (0,2%)
• Romanian: 1,664 (0,1%)
• Ruthenian: 234 (0,0%)
• Other or unknown: 28,205 (1,8%)

According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:^[2]

Total:

• Roman Catholic: 1,046,868 (64,8%)
• Calvinist: 252,188 (15,6%)
• Jewish: 201,117 (12,5%)
• Lutheran: 96,863 (6,0%)
• Greek Orthodox: 8,563 (0,5%)
• Greek Catholic: 6,949 (0,4%)
• Unitarian: 1,219 (0,0%)
• Other or unknown: 1,962(0,1%)

1910

Ethnographic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see key in the description).

In 1910, the county had a population of 1,978,041 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:^[3]

• Hungarian: 1,728,473 (87,4%)
• German: 162,824 (8,2%)
• Slovak: 47,149 (2,4%)
• Serbian: 7,934 (0,4%)
• Croatian: 3,419 (0,2%)
• Romanian: 3,357 (0,2%)
• Ruthenian: 306 (0,0%)
• Other or unknown: 24,579 (1,2%)

According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:^[4]

Total:

• Roman Catholic: 1,293,265 (65,4%)
• Calvinist: 296,223 (15,0%)
• Jewish: 245,157 (12,4%)
• Lutheran: 113,094 (5,7%)
• Greek Catholic: 12,169 (0,6%)
• Greek Orthodox: 12,001 (0,6%)
• Unitarian: 2,526 (0,1%)
• Other or unknown: 3,606 (0,2%)

Subdivisions

Before approx. 1897, the subdivisions of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun were (felső is upper, közép is middle, alsó is lower):

After approx. 1897, the subdivisions of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun were:

Aerial photography: Abony

Aerial photography: Aszód- palace

Pomáz - Palace from above

References

Counties of the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen
Kingdom of Hungary	Abaúj-Torna Alsó-Fehér Arad Árva Bács-Bodrog Baranya Bars Békés Bereg Beszterce-Naszód Bihar Borsod Brassó Csanád Csík Csongrád Esztergom Fejér Fogaras Gömör-Kishont Győr Hajdú Háromszék Heves Hont Hunyad Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Kis-Küküllő Kolozs Komárom Krassó-Szörény Liptó Máramaros Maros-Torda Moson Nagy-Küküllő Nógrád Nyitra Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun Pozsony Sáros Somogy Sopron Szabolcs Szatmár Szeben Szepes Szilágy Szolnok-Doboka Temes Tolna Torda-Aranyos Torontál Trencsén Turóc Udvarhely Ugocsa Ung Vas Veszprém Zala Zemplén Zólyom
Corpus separatum	Fiume
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia	Bjelovar-Križevci Lika-Krbava Modruš-Rijeka Požega Srijem Varaždin Virovitica Zagreb