Borsod was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The capital of the county was Miskolc. After World War II, the county was merged with the Hungarian parts of Abaúj-Torna County and Zemplén counties to form Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.
Etymology
The name comes from the personal name Bors (an early medieval magnate) with the -d suffix used to derive place names in old Hungarian language. The personal name Bors could have derived from bors (Hungarian "pepper") and/or derived from Turkish (a theory of János Melich) or from the Slavic personal name Boriš (a theory of Elemér Moór). The problem has not been sufficiently resolved yet. E.g. Lajos Kiss suggests the Turkish origin, whilst Slovak scholars have been suggesting the Slavic origin since the times of Ján Stanislav who accepted Moór's theory as more reliable and pointed to several place names with similar etymology (*Bor[I]ša). Ján Steinhübel points to the Czech name Borša (a member of the retinue of Břetislav II); from the same name derives also e.g. Boršov nad Vltavou.
| 195,980 || 174,900 (92.64%) || 10,462 (5.54%) || 2,250 (1.19%) || 1,180 (0.63%)
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! 1890
| 216,794 || 202,896 (93.59%) || 9,738 (4.49%) || 3,160 (1.46%) || 1,000 (0.46%)
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! 1900
| 257,586 || 243,117 (94.38%) || 9,338 (3.63%) || 3,155 (1.22%) || 1,976 (0.77%)
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! 1910
| 289,914 || 281,874 (97.23%) || 4,115 (1.42%) || 2,379 (0.82%) || 1,546 (0.53%)
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Population by religion
! Census !! Total !! Roman Catholic !! Calvinist !! Jewish !! Greek Catholic !! Lutheran !! Other or unknown
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! 1880
| 195,980 || 94,662 (48.30%) || 73,524 (37.52%) || 12,826 (6.54%) || 10,279 (5.24%) || 4,420 (2.26%) || 269 (0.14%)
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! 1890
| 216,794 || 109,412 (50.47%) || 77,038 (35.54%) || 13,880 (6.40%) || 10,986 (5.07%) || 5,373 (2.48%) || 105 (0.05%)
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! 1900
| 257,586 || 137,980 (53.57%) || 83,310 (32.34%) || 16,477 (6.40%) || 12,850 (4.99%) || 6,700 (2.60%) || 269 (0.10%)
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! 1910
| 289,914 || 160,699 (55.43%) || 88,856 (30.65%) || 18,346 (6.33%) || 14,086 (4.86%) || 7,299 (2.52%) || 628 (0.22%)
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Subdivisions
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In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Borsod county were:
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan=2|Districts (járás)
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! District!! Capital
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|Edelény District||Edelény
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|Mezőcsát District||Mezőcsát
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|Mezőkövesd District||Mezőkövesd
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|Miskolc District||Miskolc
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|Ózd District||Ózd
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|Sajószentpéter District||Sajószentpéter
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!colspan=2|Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
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|colspan=2|Miskolc (from 1909)
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!colspan=2|Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
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|colspan=2|Miskolc (until 1909)
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Notes
Sources
- Hungarian Catholic Lexicon (Hungarian only) (articles: Borsod, Gömör és Kishont közigazgatásilag egyelőre egyesített vármegye, Borsod vármegye, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye and Borsod-Gömör vármegye.)