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Budapest
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12,228
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is the name of a historic administrative county (
Comitatus ) of the
Kingdom Of Hungary . Its territory is presently 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 .
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
Km&2 around 1910.
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.
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:
