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Turóc County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

Field	Value
native_name
conventional_long_name	Turóc County
common_name	Turóc
subdivision	County
nation	the Kingdom of Hungary
year_start	14th century
event_end	Treaty of Trianon
year_end	1920
date_end	June 4
image_coat	Turiec coatofarms.jpg
image_map	Turóc vármegye Magyarországon.svg
capital	Turócszentmárton
coordinates
stat_area1	1123
stat_pop1	55703
stat_year1	1910
today	Slovakia
footnotes	Martin is the current name of the capital

Turóc (Hungarian, historically also spelled Túrócz), , /comitatus Thurociensis, ) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in north-western Slovakia, where the corresponding Slovak name Turiec is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory.

Geography

''Map of Túróc county in the Kingdom of Hungary (1891)'' — Map of Túróc, 1891.

Turóc county shared borders with the counties of Nyitra, Trencsén, Árva, Liptó, Zólyom and Bars, situated between the Lesser Fatra (Kis-Fátra) and Greater Fatra (Nagy-Fátra) Mountains. The river Turóc flowed through the county. Its area was 1123 km2 around 1910.

Capitals

The capitals of the Turóc county were the Szklabinya Castle and Turócszentmárton (present-day Martin; Slovak name until 1950: Turčiansky Svätý Martin); from 1772 only Turócszentmárton was the capital.

History

Turóc county as a Hungarian comitatus arose in the 14th century. In the aftermath of World War I, the area of the now defunct Turóc county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon. The territory of the county is now part of Slovakia.

Demographics

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

Census	Total	Slovak	German	Hungarian
45,933	33,951 (76.58%)	8,988 (20.27%)	1,066 (2.40%)	330 (0.74%)
49,979	37,954 (75.94%)	10,180 (20.37%)	1,358 (2.72%)	487 (0.97%)
51,956	38,233 (73.59%)	11,039 (21.25%)	2,185 (4.21%)	499 (0.96%)
55,703	38,432 (68.99%)	10,993 (19.74%)	5,560 (9.98%)	718 (1.29%)

Census	Total	Lutheran	Roman Catholic	Jewish
45,933	25,279 (55.03%)	18,413 (40.09%)	2,188 (4.76%)	53 (0.12%)
49,979	26,834 (53.69%)	20,853 (41.72%)	2,214 (4.43%)	78 (0.16%)
51,956	27,075 (52.11%)	22,677 (43.65%)	2,022 (3.89%)	182 (0.35%)
55,703	27,651 (49.64%)	25,607 (45.97%)	1,981 (3.56%)	464 (0.83%)

Subdivisions

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

Lower Turóc – its center was Turócszentmárton and the subregion roughly corresponds to the present-day District of Martin
Upper Turóc – its center was Stubnyafürdő and the subregion roughly corresponds to the present-day District of Turčianske Teplice

Districts (járás)	District	Capital
Stubnyafürdő	Stubnyafürdő (now Turčianske Teplice)
Turócszentmárton	Turócszentmárton (now Martin)

Governors

Michael Reway de Rewa, comes ( 1569).
Franciscus Revay ( 1638).
Andrea Czeromanka de Tarno.
Petrus de Reva, comes ( 1767).

Notes

References

"Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu.
"A Magyar Korona országainak helységnévtára (1892)". library.hungaricana.hu.
"A MAGYAR KORONA ORSZÁGAINAK 1900". library.hungaricana.hu.
"KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu.
(1798). "Scriptores Rerum Hungaricarum minores hactenus inediti, synchroni, aut proxime coaevi: 2". Typ. regiae Univers..
(1710). "Historia diplomatica de statu religionis evangelicae in Hungaria".
Pál Wallaszky. (1785). "Conspectus reipublicae litterariae in Hungaria ab initiis regni ad nostra usque ad tempora delineatus a Paullo Wallaszky". apud Antonium Loewe, typgraphum et bibliopolam.
(1767). "Specimen Prævium Diplomaticum Historico-Criticum De Electione Regis Ejusdem: 1". Typis Joannis Thomæ Nobilis De Trattnern.

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