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Fogaras County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

Summary

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

Field	Value
native_name
conventional_long_name	Fogaras County
common_name	Fogaras
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_Fogaras_(history).svg
image_map	Fogaras vármegye Magyarországon.svg
capital	Fogaras
coordinates
stat_area1	2433
stat_pop1	95174
stat_year1	1910
today	Romania
footnotes	Făgăraș is the current name of the capital.

Fogaras was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The county's capital was Fogaras (present-day Făgăraș).

Geography

Map of Fogaras county in the Kingdom of Hungary — Map of Fogaras, 1891.

Fogaras county shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Szeben, Nagy-Küküllő and Brassó. The river Olt formed most of its northern border. The ridge of the southern Carpathian Mountains forms its southern border. Its area was 2433 km2 around 1910.

History

The Fogaras region was an administrative territorial entity of the Kingdom of Hungary since the 15th century. Fogaras county was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon the county became part of Romania; Făgăraș County was created, with an identical territory. The territory lies in the present Romanian counties Brașov and Sibiu (the westernmost part).

Demographics

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

Census	Total	Romanian	Hungarian	German
84,571	75,050 (90.92%)	2,694 (3.26%)	3,850 (4.66%)	948 (1.15%)
88,217	78,725 (89.24%)	4,082 (4.63%)	4,009 (4.54%)	1,401 (1.59%)
92,801	83,445 (89.92%)	5,159 (5.56%)	3,627 (3.91%)	570 (0.61%)
95,174	84,436 (88.72%)	6,466 (6.79%)	3,236 (3.40%)	1,036 (1.09%)

Census	Total	Eastern Orthodox	Greek Catholic	Roman Catholic	Lutheran	Calvinist	Jewish
84,571	54,900 (64.92%)	22,787 (26.94%)	2,194 (2.59%)	2,449 (2.90%)	1,335 (1.58%)	675 (0.80%)	231 (0.27%)
88,217	56,943 (64.55%)	23,142 (26.23%)	2,466 (2.80%)	2,625 (2.98%)	1,801 (2.04%)	866 (0.98%)	374 (0.42%)
92,801	60,220 (64.89%)	23,850 (25.70%)	2,454 (2.64%)	2,737 (2.95%)	2,225 (2.40%)	873 (0.94%)	442 (0.48%)
95,174	61,881 (65.02%)	23,651 (24.85%)	3,024 (3.18%)	2,768 (2.91%)	2,441 (2.56%)	905 (0.95%)	504 (0.53%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Fogaras county were:

Districts (járás)	District	Capital	Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Alsóárpás	Alsóárpás (now Arpașu de Jos)
Fogaras	Fogaras (now Făgăraș)
Sárkány	Sárkány (now Șercaia)
Törcsvár	Zernest (now Zărnești)
Fogaras (now Făgăraș)

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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