Pozsony county was a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lies in present-day western Slovakia.
Its name changed along with that of the city of Pozsony, today's Bratislava. Its names around 1900 were Pozsony vármegye in Hungarian, Prešpurská župa in Slovak and Preßburger Gespanschaft in German.
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