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Abaúj-Torna County. Košice is the current name of the capital. Abaúj-Torna ( Slovak: Abov-Turňa, German: Abaujwar-Tornau, Latin: comitatus Abaujvar-Tornensis) was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its capital was Kassa (present-day Košice ). Its territory is now divided between Hungary and Slovakia .
Hungary is in the Pannonian Basin in Central Europe, is surrounded by the Carpathians, Alps and Dinarides, but for the most part dominated by lowlands. Sixty-eight percent of the country is lowlands below 200 meters altitude. Hilly terrain covers 30% of the country, while mountains cover only 2%. The entire Pannonian Basin is in the Danube ...
Zemplén County. / 48.383°N 21.650°E / 48.383; 21.650. Zemplén ( Hungarian: Zemplén, Slovak: Zemplín, German: Semplin, Semmlin, Latin: Zemplinum) was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The northern part of its territory is now situated in eastern Slovakia ( Zemplín region), while a smaller southern ...
The Kingdom of Hungary was a Central European regional power, encompassing about 320,000 km 2 (120,000 sq mi) of land in the 15th century. It was a composite monarchy: the Hungarian kings also ruled Croatia, and two provinces, Transylvania (in the east) and Slavonia (in the southwest), had their own peculiar administrative systems.
The Hungarian–Ottoman wars were a series of battles between the Ottoman Empire and the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Following the Byzantine Civil War, the Ottoman capture of Gallipoli, and the decisive Battle of Kosovo, the Ottoman Empire was poised to conquer the entirety of the Balkans. It also sought and expressed desire to expand further ...
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia. Map of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia in the 13th/14th century. The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia [a] historically known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia [b] [non-primary source needed] was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349.
Map of counties of Kingdom of Hungary (Hungary proper and Croatia & Slavonia), 1886-1918. I have organised this into layers: Three layers of paths for the counties, for the county borders, and for external border. and one layer for the text labels.
