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

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Báthory family originPlace Szilágy County