Torna (Slovak: Turňa, Latin and Hungarian: Torna, German: Tornau) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary.[1] It was located in present-day southeastern Slovakia and northern Hungary; today Turňa is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory in Slovakia. It was primarily a large estate consisting of royal forest lands.[2]
The initially large county was one of the original counties in the Kingdom of Hungary, but was gradually reduced to a territory corresponding to a small territory around the Turňa River (Hungarian: Torna-patak). The capital of the county was Turňa Castle (Hungarian: Tornai vár), later the town of Turňa nad Bodvou (Hungarian: Torna).[3]
From 1785 to 1790, 1848–1859, and ultimately in 1882 it was merged with the county Abov to form the county Abaúj-Torna (Abov-Turňa).
References
edit- ↑ Prokopovych, Markian; Bethke, Carl; Scheer, Tamara (1 August 2019). Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire. BRILL. p. 160. doi:10.1163/9789004407978_010. ISBN 978-90-04-40797-8. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
- ↑ Galambosi, Péter (2022). "The Town of Gölnicbánya in the Árpád Era". The Hungarian Historical Review. 11 (3). Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 545–569. ISSN 2063-8647. JSTOR 27297227. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
- ↑ "Torna vármegye és társadalma 18-19. századi források tükrében (Bódvaszilas-Miskolc, 2002)". Hungaricana (in Hungarian). Retrieved 9 February 2026.