Tolna is the name of:

1. an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary,
2. an administrative county in the former Kingdom of Hungary,
3. a town in Hungary.

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1 Tolna county 2 Tolna (former county) 2.1 Geography 2.2 History 2.3 Districts 3 Tolna (town)

Tolna county

Tolna county lies in central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Somogy, Fejér, Bács-Kiskun, and Baranya. The capital of Tolna county is Szekszárd. Its area is 3703 km².

Tolna (former county)

Tolna (in Latin: comitatus Tolnensis) is also the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was about the same as that of present Tolna county, is presently in central Hungary. The capital of the county was Szekszárd.

Geography

Tolna county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Somogy, Veszprém, Fejér, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and Baranya. The river Danube formed most of its eastern border. Its area was 3537 km² around 1910.

History

Tolna county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century.

Districts

In the early 20th century, the districts and their capitals were:

• Szekszárd
• Dunaföldvár, capital Paks
• Simontornya, capital Gyönk
• Dombóvár, capital Tamási
• Völgység, capital Bonyhád

Tolna (town)

Tolna is also a small town in Tolna county, Hungary. It lies about 10 km north of Szekszárd and 135 km south of Budapest.

	Counties in Hungary	Missing image European_flag.png Flag of the European Union
Counties: Bács-Kiskun | Baranya | Békés | Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén | Csongrád | Fejér | Győr-Moson-Sopron | Hajdú-Bihar | Heves | Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok | Komárom-Esztergom | Nógrád | Pest | Somogy | Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg | Tolna | Vas | Veszprém | Zala
Capital: (usually treated as the 20th county) Budapest
Urban counties: Békéscsaba | Debrecen | Dunaújváros | Eger | Győr | Hódmezővásárhely | Kaposvár | Kecskemét | Miskolc | Nagykanizsa | Nyíregyháza | Pécs | Salgótarján | Sopron | Szeged | Szekszárd | Székesfehérvár | Szolnok | Szombathely | Tatabánya | Veszprém | Zalaegerszeg
See also: List of historic counties of Hungary