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The region is home to three major cities: San Francisco, Oakland and, the largest, San Jose. The Bay Area has been inhabited since antiquity, first by the Ohlone and Miwok peoples, followed by the Spanish, who first arrived in 1769 and established the area's first mission, Mission San Francisco de Asís, in 1776. [2][3][4] After being ceded to ...
The local authorities of these towns have extended powers but they are not independent territorial units. The current system of counties has evolved from medieval fiefdoms of the Kingdom of Hungary; each fiefdom was ruled from a castle (Hungarian: vár). Between 1950 and 2022, the counties of Hungary were officially called megyék (singular ...
Towns and villages in Hungary. Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: város, plural: városok; the terminology does not distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: község, plural: községek) of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: nagyközség, plural ...
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. Districts of the 19 counties are numbered by Arabic numerals and named after the district seat, while districts of Budapest are ...
592 km 2. Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) is a landlocked country in southeastern Central Europe, [1] bordering the Balkans. [2] Situated in the Pannonian Basin, it has a land area of 93,030 square km, measuring about 250 km from north to south and 524 km from east to west. It has 2,106 km of boundaries, shared with Slovakia to the north ...
Map of captaincies of Royal Hungary in 1572. In 1547, Royal Hungary was divided for military and partly also administrative purposes in two captaincies-general (Hungarian: főkapitányságok, Slovak: hlavné kapitanáty): Cisdanubia (largely present-day Slovakia) Transdanubia (the remaining Royal Hungary). Later on, these captaincies were ...
The counties are subdivided into 174 districts (járások, singular: járás). these replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013. [4] Former administrative divisions of Hungary include: Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary; Counties of Hungary (1000–1920) Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (1941–44)