Bars County

Bars County

Bars (Latin: comitatus Barsiensis, Hungarian: Bars, Slovak: Tekov, German: Barsch) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in central and southern Slovakia. Today in Slovakia, Tekov is the informal designation of the corresponding territory.

Read more about Bars County:  Geography, Capitals, History, Subdivisions

Famous quotes containing the words bars and/or county:

    “Howling and roaring
    Toe’osh scattered white people
    out of bars all over Wisconsin.”
    —Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)

    “In the county there are thirty-seven churches
    and no butcher shop. This could be taken
    as a matter of all form and no content.”
    —Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)