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David John Chariandy (born in 1969 in Scarborough, Ontario) [1] is a Canadian writer and academic, presently working as a Professor of English literature at the University of Toronto. His 2017 novel Brother won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize , Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize , [ 2 ] and Toronto Book Award .
Map of 71 counties in the Lands of the Hungarian Crown (the Kingdom of Hungary proper and Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia) around 1880. A county (Hungarian: vármegye or megye; the earlier refers to the counties of the Kingdom of Hungary) is the name of a type of administrative unit in Hungary.
Map No. of district No. of municipalities Baranya: Pécs: Southern Transdanubia: 4429.60 360,704 81 10 301 Bács-Kiskun: Kecskemét: Southern Great Plain: 8444.89 503,825 60 11 119 Békés: Békéscsaba: Southern Great Plain: 5629.71 334,264 59 9 75 Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén: Miskolc: Northern Hungary: 7247.19 642,447 89 16 358 Budapest ...
There are eight statistical regions of Hungary, These regions consist of the 19 Counties of Hungary and the capital city. There were seven regions created in 1999 by the Law 1999/XCII amending Law 1996/XXI but since 2018 the capital Budapest has left the Central Hungary region and become its own region.
Districts of Hungary are the second-level divisions of Hungary after counties.They replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013.. There are 174 districts in the 19 counties, and there are 23 districts in Budapest.
Former district borders were also partly modified but the old numbering system is still clear on the map. In 1994, Soroksár left District XX , became the newest district and received the number XXIII.
The Hungary–Romania border (Hungarian: magyar–román államhatár; Romanian: Frontiera între Ungaria și România) is the state border between Hungary and Romania.It was established in 1920 by an international commission (the "Lord Commission") presided over by geographers including Emmanuel de Martonne and Robert Ficheux, [1] and historians Robert William Seton-Watson and Ernest Denis. [2]
Map of Szatmár, 1891. After 1876, Szatmár county shared borders with the former Hungarian counties of Szabolcs, Bereg, Ugocsa, Máramaros, Szolnok-Doboka, Szilágy and Bihar. It was situated south of the river Tisza. The rivers Crasna, Someş, Lăpuș and Tur flowed through the county. Its area was 6,257 km 2 around 1910.