Liptó County

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox Former Subdivision Liptó County (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Langx) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in northern Slovakia.

Geography

Map of Liptó, 1891.

Former county of Liptó superimposed on map of contemporary Slovakia.

Liptó county shared borders with the Austrian land Galicia and the Hungarian counties Árva, Turóc, Zólyom, Gömör-Kishont and Szepes. The county's territory was situated along the upper Vág (present-day Váh) river between the High Tatras and the Low Tatras. Its area was 2,247 km² around 1910.

Today, the territory of the former Liptó County largely corresponds to the Ružomberok District and Liptovský Mikuláš District in northern Slovakia. Three villages (Liptovská Teplička, Štrba and Štrbské Pleso) are now in the Poprad District.

Capitals

The capitals of the county were the Liptó Castle, later Németlipcse (present-day Partizánska Ľupča), and since 1677 the capital was Liptószentmiklós (present-day Liptovský Mikuláš).

History

Liptó county as a Hungarian comitatus arose before the 15th century. At various points throughout history the county was ruled by Voivodes or Counts from the Rosenberg, Csák and Benyovszky families. In the aftermath of World War I, the area became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, as recognized by the concerned states in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon.

Demographics

Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).

Population by mother tongueTemplate:Efn

Census	Total	Slovak	Hungarian	German	Other or unknown
1880<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	74,758	67,554 (93.67%)	1,438 (1.99%)	2,775 (3.85%)	353 (0.49%)
1890<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	76,850	72,067 (93.78%)	1,771 (2.30%)	2,568 (3.34%)	444 (0.58%)
1900<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	82,159	75,938 (92.43%)	2,708 (3.30%)	2,475 (3.01%)	1,038 (1.26%)
1910<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86,906	78,098 (89.86%)	4,365 (5.02%)	2,591 (2.98%)	1,852 (2.13%)

Population by religionTemplate:Efn

Census	Total	Roman Catholic	Lutheran	Jewish	Other or unknown
1880	74,758	38,601 (51.63%)	32,735 (43.79%)	3,349 (4.48%)	73 (0.10%)
1890	76,850	40,149 (52.24%)	33,408 (43.47%)	3,137 (4.08%)	156 (0.20%)
1900	82,159	43,979 (53.53%)	34,953 (42.54%)	3,092 (3.76%)	135 (0.16%)
1910	86,906	47,772 (54.97%)	35,169 (40.47%)	3,237 (3.72%)	728 (0.84%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Liptó County were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Template:Color box Liptószentmiklós	Liptószentmiklós (now Liptovský Mikuláš)
Template:Color box Liptóújvár	Liptóújvár (now Liptovský Hrádok)
Template:Color box Németlipcse	Németlipcse (now Partizánska Ľupča)
Template:Color box Rózsahegy	Rózsahegy (now Ružomberok)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Template:Color box Rózsahegy (now Ružomberok)