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Brassó County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

Summary

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

Field	Value
native_name
conventional_long_name	Brassó County
common_name	Brassó
subdivision	County
nation	the Kingdom of Hungary
year_start	1876
event_end	Treaty of Trianon
year_end	1920
date_end	June 4
image_coat	Coa_Hungary_County_Brassó_(history).svg
image_map	Brassó vármegye Magyarországon.svg
capital	Brassó
coordinates
stat_area1	1492
stat_pop1	101109
stat_year1	1910
today	Romania
footnotes	Brașov is the current name of the capital.

Brassó was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Brassó (Brașov in Romanian, Kronstadt in German).

Geography

Map of Brassó County in the Kingdom of Hungary — Map of Brassó County, 1891.

Brassó County shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties of Fogaras, Nagy-Küküllő, and Háromszék. The river Olt formed part of its northern border. The ridge of the Southern Carpathian Mountains forms its southern border. Its area was 1492 km2 around 1910.

History

The Brassó/Kronstadt region was settled by German colonists since the 12th century. Brassó County was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed, and was centered on the former Saxon seat of Kronstadt/Brașov. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian county of Brașov.

Demographics

Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description)

Census	Total	Hungarian	Romanian	German
83,929	23,948 (29.62%)	29,250 (36.18%)	26,579 (32.87%)	1,074 (1.33%)
86,777	26,116 (30.10%)	31,106 (35.85%)	27,802 (32.04%)	1,753 (2.02%)
95,565	31,191 (32.64%)	33,886 (35.46%)	29,415 (30.78%)	1,073 (1.12%)
101,199	35,372 (34.95%)	35,091 (34.68%)	29,542 (29.19%)	1,194 (1.18%)

Census	Total	Lutheran	Eastern Orthodox	Roman Catholic	Calvinist	Jewish	Unitarian	Greek Catholic
83,929	39,407 (46.95%)	31,206 (37.18%)	8,541 (10.18%)	3,228 (3.85%)	679 (0.81%)	466 (0.56%)	356 (0.42%)	46 (0.05%)
86,777	39,905 (45.99%)	31,579 (36.39%)	9,837 (11.34%)	3,489 (4.02%)	868 (1.00%)	521 (0.60%)	561 (0.65%)	17 (0.02%)
95,565	42,082 (44.03%)	33,901 (35.47%)	10,675 (11.17%)	5,484 (5.74%)	1,291 (1.35%)	1,030 (1.08%)	1,075 (1.12%)	27 (0.03%)
101,199	42,901 (42.39%)	35,585 (35.16%)	11,886 (11.75%)	6,854 (6.77%)	1,503 (1.49%)	1,441 (1.42%)	979 (0.97%)	50 (0.05%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Brassó County were:

Districts (járás)	District	Capital	Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Alvidék	Földvár (now Feldioara)
Felvidék	Feketehalom (now Codlea) until 1894, then Brassó (now Brașov)
Hétfalu	Hosszúfalu (now Săcele)
Brassó (now Brașov)

Notes

References

"Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu.
"A Magyar Korona országainak helységnévtára (1892)". library.hungaricana.hu.
"A MAGYAR KORONA ORSZÁGAINAK 1900". library.hungaricana.hu.
"KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu.

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