Ispán (disambiguation)
Ispán ("count") is the Hungarian title of a number of officials in the Kingdom of Hungary.
It may refer to:
- ispán, the head (usually appointed by the monarch) of a castle district (a fortress and the royal lands attached to it) or an administrative unit called county;
- the head of autonomous ethnic groups within the kingdom, including
- the székelyispán or Count of the Székelys, the royal officials leading the Hungarian-speaking Székely community in Transylvania (now in Romania) in the Middle Ages,
- the szebeni ispán or Count Hermannstadt (Nagyszeben, Sibiu), the head of the Transylvanian Saxons between 1224 and 1324.
- Related
- Főispán (literally "chief ispán," originally county lord-lieutenant), more recently capital and county government commissioner, a historical term reintroduced in 2022 instead of self-explanatory kormánymegbízott.