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Temes County | |
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County of the Kingdom of Hungary (12th century-1526) County of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (1526-1552) County of the Kingdom of Hungary (1779-1849, 1860-1920) | |
Capital | Temesvár |
Area | |
• Coordinates | 45°45′N 21°14′E / 45.750°N 21.233°E |
• 1910 | 7,433 km2 (2,870 sq mi) |
Population | |
• 1910 | 500,835 |
History | |
• Established | 12th century |
• Ottoman conquest | 26 July 1552 |
• County recreated | 23 April 1779 |
• Disestablished | 18 November 1849 |
• County recreated | 27 December 1860 |
• Treaty of Trianon | 4 June 1920 |
Today part of | Romania (5,552 km2) Serbia (1,881 km2) |
Timișoara is the current name of the capital. |
County of Temes (Hungarian: Temes, Romanian: Timiș, Serbian: Тамиш or Tamiš, German: Temes or Temesch) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in southwestern Romania and northeastern Serbia. The capital of the county was Temesvár (Romanian: Timișoara, Serbian: Темишвар or Temišvar, German: Temeswar or Temeschwar), which also served as the kingdom's capital between 1315–1323.