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  The Ultimate County - American History Information Guide and Reference
The county remains one of the oldest levels of government in China and significantly predates the establishment of provinces in the Ming dynasty.
The county of Oslo is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo.
County sheriffs are the principal agents of law enforcement in some states, for areas outside of cities and towns.
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 Hungary - Gurupedia
Initially the history of Hungary was made in the triangle with Poland and Bohemia, with the many liaisons with Popes and Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.
The golden age ended with the Ottoman conquest at the beginning of the 16th century, when the rest of Hungary came under Austrian control in the 16th century, with Austria conquering all of Hungary by the end of the 17th century.
Hungary declared its full independence on October 31, 1918, though it lost most of its former territory and population (mostly non-Hungarian nationals) to neighbouring nations.
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  Encyclopedia: Counties   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The county remains one of the oldest levels of government in China and significantly predates the establishment of provinces in the Ming dynasty.
The county of Oslo is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo.
County sheriffs are the principal agents of law enforcement in some states, for areas outside of cities and towns.
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 Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Initially the history of Hungary was made in the triangle with Poland and Bohemia, with the many liaisons with Popes and Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.
Hungary's landscape consists mostly of the flat to rolling plains of the Carpathian Basin, with hills and lower mountains to the north along the Slovakian border (highest point: the Kékes at 1,014 m).
Hungary continues to demonstrate strong economic growth as one of the newest members of the European Union (since 2004).
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 Encyclopedia: List of historic counties of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Also, the lists of the individual points of time stem from different sources so that the first-level categorization is not necessarily compatible over time.
In the late 14th and in the 15th century there were around 70 counties, out of which 7(?) under the voivode of Transylvania, 7 under the banus of Slavonia and 21 completely or partly on the territory of Slovakia.
Banská Štiavnica and Banská Belá (Selmecbánya and Bélabánya, one urban county),
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 Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name "Hungary" is influenced by the name of the Hun people, although it probably comes from the name of a later, 7th century state called Onogur (or possibly from the name of the city Ungvár, which was possibly the first major city the magyars occupied).
Hungary then assisted the German occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, occupying the Banat right afterwards, and finally entered World War II in 1941, fighting primarily against the Soviet Union.
Hungary passed a series of anti-Semitic laws throughot the 1920s and thirties, and some massacres of Jews by Hungarian forces took place in the early part of the Second World War, but Hungary initially resisted large scale deportation of its Jewish population.
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 Hungary -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hungary was partially demolished with a great loss of life in 1241–1242 by (A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia) Mongol armies of the (A Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century) Golden Horde.
Hungary continues to demonstrate strong economic growth as one of the newest members of the (An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members) European Union (since 2004).
The largest religion in Hungary is (The beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church) Catholicism – Roman and Greek – (approx two thirds of the population), with a (An adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin) Calvinist minority (around 20%) and (Follower of Lutheranism) Lutherans (5%).
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 Encyclopedia: Counties of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Of these, 19 are counties (megyék, singular: megye) and 22 are so-called urban counties (singular: megyei jogú város), in addition to which there is one capital city (főváros): Budapest.
Békéscsaba (Romanian: Bichişciaba; Slovakian: Békéšska Čaba) is an urban county in Southeast Hungary, the capital of the county Békés.
Békés county is an administrative division (comitatus or megye) in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania.
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 Hungary - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tradition holds that the Country of the Magyars (Hungary) was founded by Árpád, who led the Magyars into the Pannonian plains at the end of the 9th century.
Gradually Hungary under the rule of the dynasty of the Árpáds turned into a large, independent kingdom which formed a distinct Central European culture with ties to greater West European civilisation.
Under his rule, Hungary (notably the northern parts, some of which are in Slovakia today) became an artistic and cultural center of Europe during the Renaissance.
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The word "county" is the general English translation for the Chinese languageChinese term ''xiàn'' (县 or 縣).
At the county level there is a County Administrative Boards of Swedencounty administrative board led by a governor appointed by the central government of Sweden, as well as an elected County Councils of Swedencounty council that handles a separate set of issues, notably hospitals and public transportation.
The thirteen Traditional counties of Walestraditional counties of Wales were fixed by Statute in 1539 and most of those of Scotland are of at least this age.
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 Vas - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vas is also the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Its territory is presently in western Hungary, eastern Austria and eastern Slovenia.
Vas county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary.
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 County biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The word "county" is the general English translation for the Chinese term xiàn (县 or and#32291).
In the medieval period, a number of important cities were granted the status of counies in their own right, such as London, Bristol and Coventry, and numerous small exclaves such as Islandshire were created.
In many states, counties are subdivided into civil townships, which typically administer specific land-use ordinances and provide limited services such as clearing roads after a snowfall.
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In sparsely populated northern Ontario and Quebec, these units are called "districts" not "counties", and in densely populated south-central Ontario new "regional municipalities" are used for local government instead of counties.
The county remains one of the oldest levels of government in China and significantly predates the establishment of provinces in the
In addition 'County Tipperary' is actually two counties, called Tipperary North Riding and Tipperary South Riding (amusing as riding derives from the anglo saxon thriding meaning a third) while the major urban centres Cork, Galway, Limerick, and Waterford have been separated from the rural areas of their counties.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - County   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The term "county" is also used in 48 of the 50 states of the United States for the level of local government below the states themselves.
In New England, counties function primarily as judicial court districts, as most local power is in the form of towns.
In Virginia, all municipalities incorporated as cities are organized as separate political units that are not part of any county (i.e., independent cities).
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Baranya county lies in southern Hungary, on the border with Croatia.
Its territory is presently in southern Hungary (the present county Baranya) and north-eastern Croatia (part of the Osijek-Baranja county).
Baranya county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century.
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Sopron (-Hungarian, in German: Ödenburg) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day north-western Hungary and eastern Austria.
Sopron county shared borders with the Austrian land Lower Austria and the Hungarian counties Moson, Győr, Veszprém and Vas.
In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the western part of the county became part of the new Austrian land Burgenland.
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 Vas
Vas (in German: Eisenburg) is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.
Vas county shared borders with the Austrian lands Lower Austria and Styria and the Hungarian counties Sopron, Veszprém and Zala.
In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the western part of the county became part of the new Austrian land Burgenland, and a small part in the south-west became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia).
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 Zala   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The territory of the historic county comprises the present Hungarian county Zala and part of present Veszprém county, the Croatian region of Međimurje to the south-west of it, bordered by the river Drave, and a small region around Lendava in present-day Slovenia.
Zala county shared borders with the Austrian land Styria and the Hungarian counties Vas, Veszprém, Somogy, Belovár-Körös and Varasd (the latter two in Croatia-Slavonia).
In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the south-west of the county became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia).
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 List of historic counties of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Since 1867 the administrative and political divisions of the lands belonging to the Hungarian crown have been in great measure remodelled.
Hungary was divided into the following 71 counties:
Hungary was divided into the following 30 towns with municipal rights:
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 Pannonian plain   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although the rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields could feed the whole of Europe.
The plain is divided among Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania and Serbia and Montenegro.
This more or less includes the historical territory of the Hungarian Kingdom.
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 Tatabánya, Hungary
The three historic predecessor settlements of Tatabánya are Alsógalla, Felsőgalla and Bánhida.
In 1950 it became the county capital of Komárom-Esztergom county (then called Komárom county.) In the 1980s it already had more than 80.000 inhabitants.
The industrial character of the city was significant until the fall of the Socialist government and the following political changes of 1989.
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 Counties Of Hungary Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 Pannonian plain   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The former Kingdom of Hungary was centered around the plain and included almost all of it.
Today the plain is divided among Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania, Ukraine and Serbia and Montenegro.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
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Her prior research includes historical archaeology in the Southeastern U.S. and the spatial relationships on late 18th/early 19th century plantations.
He is particularly interested in using historical information on the characteristics of manufacture of aeronautical vessels to classify, identify, and interpret evidence of aircraft wrecks encountered in archaeological and forensic contexts.
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 Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság) or Hungary (Magyarország) is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
It is known locally as the Country of the Magyars.
Photos of Hungary (photo album of Budapest and other cities)
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They bring together the independent works of several historical map makers into a single source and include the most up to date listings of villages from such resources as the St. Petersburg Consistory records as well as the records extractions of the Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe.
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She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speakers Guild, serves on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, and is the vice president of the Twin Ports Genealogical Society, Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin.
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