Vac

Vas is in like manner the name of an important legitimate district comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its area is by and by in western Hungary, eastern Austria and eastern Slovenia. The capital of the region was Szombathely.

Vas region rose as one of the primary comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon the western bit of the locale ended up being a bit of the new Austrian land Burgenland, and a more diminutive part in the southwest, known as Vendvidék ended up being a bit of the as of late surrounded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes later renamed to Yugoslavia.

In the Vendvidék in 1919 was built up an unrecognized express the Prekmurje Republic, alike in Burgenland the Lajtabánság. Whatever is left of in Hungary, as the present Hungarian district Vas. A little bit of past Sopron area went to Vas territory. A couple of towns north of Zalaegerszeg went to Zala zone, and a little locale west of Pápa went to Veszprém region.

Since 1991, when Slovenia wound up self-sufficient from Yugoslavia, the Yugoslavian bit of past Vas region around Murska Sobota is a bit of Slovenia.

The Vas locale is home to a little Slovene minority, which lives in the domain between the town of Szentgotthárd and the Slovenian edge see Hungarian Slovenes.