 borsod-abaÃºj-zemplÃ©n () is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in north-eastern hungary (commonly called "northern hungary"), on the border with slovakia. it shares borders with the hungarian counties nÃ³grÃ¡d, heves, hajdÃº-bihar and szabolcs-szatmÃ¡r-bereg. the capital of borsod-abaÃºj-zemplÃ©n county is miskolc. of the seven statistical regions of hungary it belongs to the region northern hungary. borsod-abaÃºj-zemplÃ©n is the second largest county of hungary both by area (after bÃ¡cs-kiskun) and by population (after pest county). ==origins and meanings of name== the county bears the name of three historic counties of hungary, each of them was centered around a castle. * borsod is named after the castle to which it belonged. the castle was possibly named after its first steward, bors (in old hungarian language the -d suffix was a derivation suffix for place names, thus the name borsod means 'place belonging to bors.') the name bors itself is of turkish origin and means 'black pepper / peppercorn' both in old and modern hungarian language, though it is no longer used as a nickname-derived personal name. the castle itself was a motte castle, and stood near modern-day edelÃ©ny. * abaÃºj is a shortened form of the name of its castle, abaÃºjvÃ¡r. the aba portion refers to the aba clan which ruled the area in the middle ages, while Ãºj vÃ¡r means 'new castle.' the castle stood near the village of abaÃºjvÃ¡r. * zemplÃ©n is named after its castle as well. the name is derived from the slovak word zem or the slavic zemlja, meaning 'earth, soil, ground' or 'country.' the castle, like its name indicates, was a motte with earthen walls; its remnants can still be seen near the slovakian village zemplÃ­n. note that besides these three castles, there were other castles in the old counties which became the modern borsod-abaÃºj-zemplÃ©n, such as the well-known fÃ¼zÃ©rvÃ¡r. ==coat of arms and flag== [[file:borsod-abaÃºj-z
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