page_title: Zala County
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Zala County / History
caption_attribution_description: County of Zala in the pre-Trianon Kingdom of Hungary. Komitat Zala w Królestwie Węgier przed traktatem w Trianon.
context_page_description: Zala is an administrative county in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia and Slovenia and the Hungarian counties Vas, Veszprém and Somogy. The capital of Zala county is Zalaegerszeg. Its area is 3,784 square kilometres. Lake Balaton lies partly in the county.
context_section_description: In the 10th century, the Hungarian Nyék tribe occupied the region around Lake Balaton. Their occupation was mainly in the areas known today as Zala and Somogy counties.
  Parts of the western territory of the former county of Zala are now part of Slovenia (South-Prekmurje). In 1919 it was part of the unrecognized state of the Republic of Prekmurje, which existed for just six days.
caption: Zala County on an old map
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