Comitatus

Comitatus can be:

• a Latin word meaning company or retinue or an armed group of men attached to a leader, or Comes; in particular, the Roman late Imperial mobile army (see Comitatenses units)
• in Europe's Classical period and in the Middle Ages, a political term used in various meanings: see Comitatus (Classical meaning)
• in the Middle Ages, the Latin word for County in the sense of a territory under a Count (Latin: ''comes")
• currently, in legal texts sometimes an alternative word for county as it is used in the USA: see County
• a Hungarian administrative unit used both historically and currently
  • in the Kingdom of Hungary, often but inaccurately also called county: see Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary)
  • an administrative unit in present-day Hungary, often also called county: see Counties of Hungary