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The government of the THIRD REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY todayHungary has 44 administrative districts made up of:1. The Fõváros or capital of Budapestplus2. 19 megye & 19 ‘real’ megyei jogú város & 5 ‘other’ megyei jogú városBaranyaPécsBács-KiskunKecskemétBékésBékéscsabaBorsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Miskolc(SÁTORALJAÚJHELY)Csongrád Szeged HódmezovásárhelyFejér Székesfehérvár DunaújvárosGyör-Moson-Sopron Gyõr SopronHajdú-BiharDebrecenHevesEgerJász-Nagykun-Szolnok SzolnokKomárom-Esztergom TatabányaNógrádSalgótarjánPest Budapest ÉrdSomogyKaposvárSzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg NyíregyházaTolnaSzekszárdVasSzombathelyVeszprémVeszprémZala Zalaegerszeg NagykanizsaSince 1984 there are 24 'megyei jogú város' made up of the 19 real former county seats plus 5 other largetowns that were not county seats but qualified as 'megyei jogú város' none-the-less; these towns areseparate administrative units from the megye (counties). The cities are not part of the county administrationand, likewise, the county administration extends only through those areas that are not designatedadministrative cities.Prior to 1984 the counties were divided into 'járás' (similar to Slovakia's kraj).8b
The Compromise of 1867 established the DUAL-MONARCHY OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY in whichthe Lajta (Leitha) River played a huge role, informally at least. TRANSLEITHANIA, or the land“beyond” the river, from Vienna’s viewpoint – contained everything east of the river, theMAGYAR KIRÁLYSÁG (KINGDOM OF HUNGARY). Well…. Except the part that was separated by theMorava River: Austrian-MORAVIA and Hungarian-SLOVAKIA. The KINGDOM was more than justitself – within the KINGDOM was the free port city of RIJEKA (FIUME) on the Adriatic and theinternally self-governed HORVÁT-SZLAVÓNIA KIRÁLYSÁG (KINGDOM OF CROATIA- SLAVONIA). TheMagyars had autonomous internal control within the dual-monarchy while CROATIA andSLAVONIA had internal control within the Hungarian kingdom. West of the Leitha River wasCISZLAJTÁNIA (Cisleithania), sort of – lands of the former AUSTRIAN EMPIRE that were not part ofTRANSLEITHANIA constituted CISZLAJTÁNIA, sort of – there was the strange “AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIANCONDOMINIUM” made up of the PROVINCE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA lying south of CROATIAAND SLAVONIA that was occupied by both CIS and TRANS in 1878 and annexed in 1908.CISZLAJTÁNIA included the BUKOVINA (UKRAINE) and the KINGDOM OF GALACIA (POLAND) the wereto the north and east of the KINGDOM OF HUNGARY as well as DALMATIA on the Adriatic coastsouth of CROATIA AND SLAVONIA. A possibly more accurate description of the border would havebeen the Hungarian “1,000 year boundary” delineated in 1,000 C.E. upon formation of theMAGYAR KIRÁLYSÁG. 1919 was the end of the AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN DUAL MONARCHY;CZECHOSLOVAKIA lasted until 1969 with a 9-year period, from 1938 to 1947, when HUNGARY andGERMANY vied for authority of the FIRST SLOVAK REPUBLIC. 1969 saw the formation of afederation of two socialist republics, one CZECH and the other SLOVAK which lasted until the fallof Communism in 1990. The federation continued as before minus the “Socialist” part of thenames. The SLOVAK REPUBLIC as it is today came into existence on New Year’s Day 1993.The Kingdom was divided into administrative districts called megye; each district isroughly equal to a county and some were based on earlier geopolitical units or represented theholdings a particularly large land-holding family. When the kingdom ceased to exist after theFirst World War and several independent countries were carved out of the old kingdom, severalcounties were split between new neighbors. When JOZSEF SCHMID lived in Hungary, he was aresident of Zemplén megye which covered a good deal of land in the northeast part of thekingdom. While the area he called home is still a part of the Hungarian Republic, the majority ofZemplén megye ended up in the Slovak Republic.Zemplén MeygeZEMPLÉN MEGYEThe megye or county adopted the name of the region’s largestfortification: Zemplínsky hrad (Castle) which served as the area’ scapital of sorts. The city of ZEMPLÉN (Slovak: ZEMPLIN) served as thecapital until the mid-18 th century. Theword vármegye is often found appearingas a synonym of megye but seems to bespecifically applicable to the actualbuildings used in the administration of themegye, i.e. the county administrationbuildings. The broad, Coat-of-Armsflat expanse of the area with manybrooks and streams crossing the area iswell-suited for viticulture and the region isknown for its Tokai wines. In 17489
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