Liptó County

Liptó County Liptó Vármegye
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
15th century–1920 →
Coat of arms
Capital		Liptószentmiklós
History
•	Established	15th century
•	Treaty of Trianon	4 June 1920
Area
•	1910	2,246 km2 (867 sq mi)
Population
•	1910	86,900
	Density	38.7 /km2  (100.2 /sq mi)
Today part of		Slovakia
Liptovský Mikuláš is the current name of the capital.

Liptó (Slovak: Liptov, Hungarian: Liptó, German: Liptau, Polish: Liptów, Latin: Liptovium) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in northern Slovakia.

Geography

Liptó county shared borders with the Austrian land Galicia and the Hungarian counties Árva (Orava), Turóc (Turiec), Zólyom (Zvolen), Gömör-Kishont (Gemer-Malohont) and Szepes (Spiš). The county's territory was situated along the upper 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 and the villages of Liptovská Mara and Nemecká Ľupča (Partizánska Ľupča), and since 1677 the capital was 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, Csak 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 the 1920 Treaty of Trianon.

Demographics

1900

In 1900, the county had a population of 82,159 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:

Total:

• Slovak: 75,938 (92.5%)
• Hungarian: 2,708 (3.3%)
• German: 2,475 (3.0%)
• Croatian: 6 (0.0%)
• Romanian: 3 (0.0%)
• Ruthenian: 2 (0.0%)
• Serbian: 2 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 1,025 (1.2%)

According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:

Total:

• Roman Catholic: 43,979 (53.5%)
• Jewish: 3,092 (3.8%)
• Calvinist: 71 (0.1%)
• Lutheran: 34,953 (42.5%)
• Greek Catholic: 49 (0.1%)
• Unitarian: 4 (0.0%)
• Greek Orthodox: 3 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 8 (0.0%)

1910

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

In 1910, the county had a population of 86,906 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:

Total:

• Slovak: 78,098 (89.9%)
• Hungarian: 4,365 (5.0%)
• German: 2,591 (3.0%)
• Romanian: 222 (0.3%)
• Ruthenian: 25 (0.0%)
• Croatian: 11 (0.0%)
• Serbian: 1 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 1,593 (1.8%)

According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:

Total:

• Roman Catholic: 47,772 (55.0%)
• Lutheran: 35,169 (40.5%)
• Jewish: 3,237 (3.7%)
• Calvinist: 289 (0.3%)
• Greek Catholic: 284 (0.3%)
• Greek Orthodox: 11 (0.0%)
• Unitarian: 3 (0.0%)
• Other or unknown: 141 (0.2%)

Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Liptószentmiklós	Liptószentmiklós, SK Liptovský Mikuláš
Liptóújvár	Liptóújvár, SK Liptovský Hrádok
Németlipcse	Németlipcse, SK Nemecká Ľupča (currently Partizánska Ľupča)
Rózsahegy	Rózsahegy, SK Ružomberok
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Rózsahegy, SK Ružomberok