Hont County
Hont (-Hungarian and Slovak and German, in Latin: Honthum, in Hungarian also: Honth) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary and then shortly of Czechoslovakia. Its territory is presently in southern Slovakia (3/4) and northern Hungary (1/4).
Today, in Slovakia Hont is the informal designation of the corresponding territory.
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