page_title: Győr County
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Győr County / History
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Győr, Moson és Pozsony k.e.e. vármegye kialakítása 1923-ban. 1 Komárom vm., 2 Győr, 3 Sopron, 4 Mosontól Sopronhoz 1921-ben (1928-ban), 5 Mosonból Csehszlovákiához 1947-ben, 6 az egykori Pozsonyból Csehszlovákiához 1947-ben, 7 Győr, Moson és Pozsony k.e.e.vm. 1923-1945, 8 megyszűnt 1914-es megyehatár, 9 mai megyehatár
context_page_description: Győr county was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary, situated mostly on the right side of the Danube river. Its territory is now part of Hungary, except seven villages on the left side of the Danube which belong to Slovakia. The capital of the county was the city of Győr.
context_section_description: The Győr comitatus arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its southern part was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1543. The Ottoman Empire meant a constant threat to the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary therefore the Habsburg kings divided the kingdom's remaining territory into captaincies. The Captaincy of Győr was located between lake Balaton and river Danube. In 1594, the Ottomans captured the city Győr, however an Habsburg-Hungarian army reconquered it in 1598. The other parts of Győr County were liberated from Ottoman rule in the 1680s.
  In 1920 the Treaty of Trianon assigned a very small part of the territory of the county to Czechoslovakia. The rest stayed in Hungary and merged with the eastern part of Moson county and a very small part of Pozsony county to form Győr-Moson-Pozsony county in 1923.
  The county became abolished after World War II and Győr-Moson county was created instead. In 1950, Sopron county merged with Győr-Moson county to form Győr-Sopron county. This county was renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron in 1990. The part of the county north of the river Danube is now in Slovakia, Trnava Region.
caption: Győr and Moson counties after the Treaty of Trianon. In 1923, the two counties were merged to form Győr-Moson County. The map shows that small part of the former Pozsony County that remained in Hungary. (2) the city of Győr (urban county). (4) territory assigned from Moson County to Sopron County in 1921. (5) and (6) territory ceded to Czechoslovakia in 1947.
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