Nyitra County
Nyitra County was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lay in what is now western Slovakia.
Geography
Nyitra County shared borders with the Austrian land Moravia and Trencsén County, Turóc County, Bars County, Komárom County and Pozsony County. In its final phase, it was a strip of land between the Morava river in the north and the town of Érsekújvár in the south, plus an outlier around the town of Privigye. The river Vág flowed through the county. Its area was 5519 km2 around 1910.Capitals
The capital of the county was the Nitra Castle and since the Late Middle Ages the town of Nyitra.History
A predecessor to Nyitra county may have existed as early as in the 9th century at the time of Great Moravia. Around 1000, Nyitra county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. The southern part, including the town Nyitra, was ruled as Uyvar Province between 1663 and 1685 by Ottoman Empire. The county shortly ceased to exist as a separate administrative unit between 1850 and 1860, when it was split into Upper Nyitra County and Lower Nyitra County.After World War I, Nyitra county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia. Nitra county continued to exist within its original borders until 1923, when it was replaced by the so-called "Nitra Great County", officially. In 1928, Nitra County was abolished like all other counties in Slovakia. In November 1938 Hungary annexed some southern parts of the former county in the First Vienna Award; these became part of the , along with annexed parts of the former Pozsony County. During the First Slovak Republic the county was briefly restored .
Demographics
| Census | Total | Slovak | Hungarian | German | Other or unknown |
| 1880 | 370,099 | 263,409 ' | 54,294 ' | 36,503 ' | 2,174 ' |
| 1890 | 396,559 | 288,811 ' | 69,498 ' | 35,893 ' | 2,357 ' |
| 1900 | 428,296 | 312,601 ' | 80,962 ' | 32,370 ' | 2,363 ' |
| 1910 | 457,455 | 324,664 ' | 100,324 ' | 27,937 ' | 4,530 ' |
| Census | Total | Roman Catholic | Lutheran | Jewish | Calvinist | Other or unknown |
| 1880 | 370,099 | 282,583 ' | 52,273 ' | 28,414 ' | 6,668 ' | 161 ' |
| 1890 | 396,559 | 307,168 ' | 54,703 ' | 27,244 ' | 7,339 ' | 105 ' |
| 1900 | 428,296 | 337,905 ' | 57,203 ' | 24,935 ' | 8,035 ' | 218 ' |
| 1910 | 457,455 | 369,225 ' | 56,676 ' | 22,942 ' | 8,238 ' | 374 ' |