Heves County (former)

Heves was an administrative county in the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which is now in northern Hungary, was slightly larger than that of present Heves county. The capital of the county was Eger.

Heves County
Comitatus Hevesiensis  (Latin)
Heves vármegye  (Hungarian)
Komitat Hewesch  (German)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(13th century-1526)
County of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
(1526-1540)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1540-1596)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1687-1765, 1876-1946)
Coat of arms

CapitalEger
Area
 • Coordinates47°54′N 20°22′E
 
• 1910
3,761 km2 (1,452 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
279,700
History
History 
• Established
13th century
• Ottoman conquest
1596
• County recreated
1687
• Merged to Heves-Külső-Szolnok County
1765
• County recreated
1876
• Monarchy abolished
1 February 1946
Today part ofHungary

Geography

Heves county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Nógrád, Gömör-Kishont, Borsod, Hajdú and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok. It stretched from the Mátra and Bükk mountains to and across the river Tisza. Its area was 3761 km2 around 1910.

History

Heves county was formed in the 13th century. In 1765 it was merged with Külső-Szolnok County because of the Ottoman occupation the latter could not maintain its administration (the justice system was merged already in 1569). However, soon the territory of Heves was conquered as well, it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire between 1596 and 1687. Only in 1876, in the newly arranged county system was Heves County recreated. After World War II, the territory of the county was modified: the region around Pásztó is now in Nógrád county, the area on the left bank of the Tisza (Tiszafüred) is now in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, and an area north of Eger was taken from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.

Demographics
Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
Population by mother tongue[lower-alpha 1]
CensusTotalHungarianOther or unknown
1880[1] 208,420196,724 (98.40%)3,193 (1.60%)
1890[2] 233,785230,450 (98.57%)3,335 (1.43%)
1900[3] 255,345252,840 (99.02%)2,505 (0.98%)
1910[4] 279,700277,378 (99.17%)2,322 (0.83%)
Population by religion[lower-alpha 2]
CensusTotalRoman CatholicCalvinistJewishOther or unknown
1880 208,420179,690 (86.22%)16,654 (7.99%)10,916 (5.24%)1,160 (0.56%)
1890 233,785203,963 (87.24%)17,798 (7.61%)10,873 (4.65%)1,151 (0.49%)
1900 255,345225,113 (88.16%)18,628 (7.30%)10,320 (4.04%)1,284 (0.50%)
1910 279,700248,778 (88.94%)18,929 (6.77%)10,244 (3.66%)1,749 (0.63%)

Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
DistrictCapital
EgerEger
GyöngyösGyöngyös
HatvanHatvan
HevesHeves
PétervásáraPétervására
TiszafüredTiszafüred
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Eger
Gyöngyös

Notes
  1. Only linguistic communities > 1% are displayed.
  2. Only religious communities > 1% are displayed.

References
  1. "Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  2. "A Magyar Korona országainak helységnévtára (1892)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  3. "A MAGYAR KORONA ORSZÁGAINAK 1900". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  4. "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
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