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.

See also

• County (Kingdom of Hungary)
• Župa