List of administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary

The following lists show the administrative divisions of the lands belonging to the Hungarian crown (1000–1920) at selected points of time.

Their number was changing (the mining towns were largely situated in the Upper Lands – present-day Slovakia) In the 16th century, the Kingdom was so gravely impacted by Ottoman conquest that its territory was reduced to almost a third of its previous size.

In 1547, Royal Hungary was divided for military and partly also administrative purposes in two captaincies-general (Hungarian: főkapitányságok, Slovak: hlavné kapitanáty): Later on, these captaincies were further subdivided.

In 1553 and 1578, southern and southeastern regions were split off into the Military Frontier and were de facto no longer part of the Kingdom.

From 1867 the administrative and political divisions of the lands belonging to the Hungarian crown (Kingdom of Hungary) were significantly remodelled.

Hungary proper, according to ancient usage, was generally divided into four great divisions or circles, and Transylvania up to 1876 was regarded as the fifth.

The following administrative divisions existed between 1886 and 1920: In the following, the key in the brackets gives the capital towns around 1910 first (note however that the capitals were usually changing throughout the centuries) and then the abbreviation for the country in which the territory is situated today: The Kingdom of Hungary was divided into the following 71 counties: (a) On the left bank of the Danube: (b) On the right bank of the Danube: (c) Between the Danube and Tisza: (d) On the right bank of the Tisza: (e) On the left bank of the Tisza: (f) Between the Tisza and the Maros: (g) Királyhágón túl (i.e. "over the royal pass through the mountains", roughly equal to Transylvania, all in present-day Romania): Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia was divided into eight counties (all, except for most of Syrmia, in present-day Croatia): The following 30 Hungarian towns had municipal rights: Hungary proper had twenty-six urban counties or towns with municipal rights.