Vas (German: Eisenburg, Slovenian ?elezna ?upanija) is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Vas county Vas county lies in western Hungary. It shares borders with Austria and Slovenia and the Hungarian counties Gy?r-Moson-Sopron, Veszprém and Zala. The capital of Vas county is Szombathely. Its area is 3,336 km². History Vas is also the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in western Hungary, eastern Austria and eastern Slovenia. The capital of the county was Szombathely. Vas county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the western part of the county became part of the new Austrian land Burgenland, and a smaller part in the southwest, known as Vendvidek became

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