Szilágy County

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Szilágy County was a historic administrative region of the Kingdom of Hungary, located in what is now northwestern Romania, known as the ancestral homeland of the influential Báthory noble family.

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Label Occurrences
Szilágy County canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic county of the Kingdom of Hungary
administrativeCenter Zalău
Zilah
administrativeType county
ancestralHomelandOf Báthory family
Báthory noble family
linked to: Báthory family
borderedBy Bihar County
Kolozs County
Szatmár County
Szolnok-Doboka County
capital Zalău
Zilah
country Kingdom of Hungary
ethnicComposition Hungarians
Jews
Romanians
governingBody county assembly
governingOfficial ispán (comes)
historicalEra Austro-Hungarian period
Kingdom of Hungary (medieval and modern)
linked to: Kingdom of Hungary
historicalFunction judicial district
local administration
historicalLanguageCommunities Hungarian speakers
Romanian speakers
Yiddish speakers
historicalRegion Partium
historicalStatus comitatus
languageOfAdministration Hungarian
locatedIn Transylvania
locatedInPresentDay Romania
northwestern Romania
namedAfter Szilágy River
notableFamilyAssociated Báthory family
partOf Lands of the Hungarian Crown
Transleithania
presentDayCountry Romania
presentDayEquivalent Sălaj County
presentDayRegion Crișana
Transylvania (Romania)
linked to: Transylvania
regionCharacteristic agricultural area
hilly landscape
regionType ancestral homeland of the Báthory family
religiousCommunities Greek Catholic
Orthodox
Reformed (Calvinist)
Roman Catholic
successorAdministrativeUnit Sălaj County
timePeriod Kingdom of Hungary (before 1918)
linked to: Kingdom of Hungary

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Báthory family originPlace Szilágy County
Bihar County borderedBy Szilágy County