Vas ( Hungarian : Vas vármegye , pronounced [ˈvɒʃ] ; German : Komitat Eisenburg ; Slovene : Železna županija or županija Železna ; Croatian : Željezna županija ) is an administrative county ( comitatus or vármegye ) of Hungary . It was also one of the counties of the former Kingdom of Hungary . It is part of the Centrope Project.
5-529: Bögöt is a village in Vas County , Hungary . This Vas location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vas County Vas County lies in western Hungary. It shares borders with Austria ( Burgenland ), Slovenia ( Mura Statistical Region ), and the Hungarian counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron , Veszprém , and Zala . The capital of Vas County is Szombathely . Its area
10-462: A small part of the former Sopron county went to Vas County, some villages north of Zalaegerszeg went to Zala county , and a small region west of Pápa went to Veszprém county. Since 1991, when Slovenia became independent from Yugoslavia , the Yugoslav part of the former Vas County (around Murska Sobota ) is part of Slovenia. Vas County is home to a small Slovene minority, which lives in
15-513: Is 3,336 km². Vas is also the name of a historic administrative county ( comitatus ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Its territory is now in western Hungary, eastern Austria, and eastern Slovenia. The capital of the county was Szombathely . Vas County arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary . In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon the western part of the county became part of
20-772: The area between the town of Szentgotthárd and the Slovenian border (see Hungarian Slovenes ). Religion in Vas County (2022 census – of those who declared their religion (64.0%)) In 2015, the county had a population of 253,997 and the population density was 76/km². Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Croats (approx. 3,000), Roma (2,500), Germans (2,000) and Slovenes (1,500). Total population (2011 census): 256,629 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 225 052 persons: Approx. 39,000 persons in Vas County did not declare their ethnic group at
25-684: The new Austrian land Burgenland , and a smaller part in the southwest, known as Vendvidék , became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). In the Vendvidék in 1919 was founded an unrecognized state the Prekmurje Republic , similar to Burgenland the Lajtabánság . The remainder stayed in Hungary , as the present Hungarian county Vas . After World War II due to Communist reforms ,
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