{{short description|County of the Kingdom of Hungary}} {{Expand Hungarian|Szolnok vármegye}} '''Szolnok County''' ({{langx|hu|Szolnok vármegye}}, {{langx|la|Comitatus Szolnokiensis}}, {{langx|de|Comitat Szolnok, Szolnoker Comitat}} (modern spelling {{lang|de|Komitat}})) was a county in the Kingdom of Hungary between the 11th century and 1426.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} It was made up of two disconnected parts, one in what later became Transylvania and the {{lang|la|Partium}}, the other around the Tisza centred on the settlement of Szolnok. The county was eventually split and became: * {{ill|Belső-Szolnok County|lt=Belső-Szolnok|hu|Belső-Szolnok vármegye}} ('Inner Szolnok') in what became the Principality of Transylvania, which was merged into Szolnok-Doboka County in 1876. * {{ill|Közép-Szolnok County|lt=Közép-Szolnok|hu|Közép-Szolnok vármegye}} ('Middle Szolnok') in what became the {{lang|la|Partium}}, which was merged into Szilágy County in 1876. * {{ill|Külső-Szolnok County|lt=Külső-Szolnok|hu|Külső-Szolnok vármegye}} ('Outer Szolnok') in central Hungary, which ''de facto'' merged with Heves County in 1569 due to the Ottoman occupation of Külső-Szolnok. Heves was also occupied in 1596, with both becoming part of Eğri Eyalet until their reconquest by the Habsburgs in 1687. The two counties merged ''de jure'' in 1765 to become {{ill|Heves and Külső-Szolnok County|hu|Heves és Külső-Szolnok vármegye}}.
A second iteration of Szolnok County, centred on the city of Szolnok and corresponding to the former Külső-Szolnok, was created in 1850<ref name="8 Sept 1850">Gesetz vom 8. September 1850, RGBl. 346/1850: {{cite web|url=https://alex.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/alex?aid=rgb&datum=1850&page=1691&size=45|title=Verordnung des Ministeriums des Inneren vom 13. September 1850 wodurch in Gemäßheit der Allerhöchsten Entschließung vom 8. September 1850 nachstehende Bestimmungen über die Einrichtung der politischen Verwaltungsbehörden im Königreiche Ungarn erlassen und zur allgemeinen Kenntniß gebracht werden.|language=de|date=1850-09-13|accessdate=2023-07-15|work=Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt für das Kaiserthum Österreich|via=ÖNB-ALEX - Historische Rechts- und Gesetztexte Online}}</ref> following the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire. It was created out of the south-eastern part of {{ill|Heves and Külső-Szolnok County|hu|Heves és Külső-Szolnok vármegye}}, separated from the other half – Heves County – mostly by the Tisza. As of 1854 Szolnok comprised the {{lang|de|Stuhlbezirke}} ('seat districts') of Tisza-Füred, Mező-Túr and Szolnok.<ref name="6 Apr 1854">Gesetz vom 6. April 1854, RGBl. 80/1854: {{cite web|url=https://alex.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/alex?aid=rgb&datum=1854&page=445&size=45|title=Verordnung der Ministerien des Inneren, der Justiz und der Finanzen vom 6. April 1854 betreffend die politische und gerichtliche Oraganisierung des Königreichs Ungarn.|language=de|date=1854-04-06|accessdate=2023-07-15|work=Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt für das Kaiserthum Österreich|via=ÖNB-ALEX - Historische Rechts- und Gesetztexte Online}}</ref>{{rp|at=I§3}} It was part of the Pest-Ofen district, one of five districts of Hungary during this period.<ref name="8 Sept 1850" /><ref name="6 Apr 1854" /> The 1850s changes to the counties were reversed in 1860, rendering this second Szolnok County defunct. Szolnok would again be separated from Heves in 1876, when it became part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, which also included the former Jászság and Nagykunság; Tisza-Füred however remained with Heves County until after World War II and the formation of the modern Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County.
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