Stephen STRANTZ

ABT 1865 - ____

• BIRTH: ABT 1865, Pomagen, Wieselburg, Austria Hungary

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[N8341] Moson (Hungarian, German: Wieselburg) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day eastern Austria and northwestern Hungary, on the right (south) side of the Danube river. Moson is also the name of a town, nowadays part of the city Mosonmagyar©dv©Lr, Hungary.

Geography

Moson county shared borders with the Austrian land Lower Austria and the Hungarian counties Pozsony (Bratislava), Gyo"r and Sopron. The river Danube runs along the north of the county, and the lake Neusiedler See lies partly in the county. Its area was 2013 kmø around 1910.
Capitals

The capital of the county was the town of Moson initially. The capital was moved to nearby Magyar©dv©Lr in the Middle Ages. Moson and Magyar©dv©Lr merged in 1939 to form the city of Mosonmagyar©dv©Lr.
History

The Moson comitatus arose as one of the first comitati of the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), a tiny part of Moson county close to Bratislava became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia. The eastern part stayed in Hungary and merged with Gyo"r county and a very small part of Pozsony county to form Gyo"r-Moson-Pozsony county. The western part became part of the new Austrian land Burgenland.

After World War II, Gyo"r-Moson-Pozsony county merged with Sopron (county) to form Gyo"r-Sopron county. This county was renamed to Gyo"r-Moson-Sopron county in the early 1990s.