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Szeben County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

Summary

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

Field	Value
native_name
conventional_long_name	Szeben County
common_name	Szeben
subdivision	County
nation	the Kingdom of Hungary
year_start	1876
event_end	Treaty of Trianon
year_end	1920
date_end	4 June
image_coat	Szeben coatofarms.jpg
image_map	Szeben vármegye in Hungary.svg
capital	Nagyszeben
coordinates
stat_area1	3619
stat_pop1	176900
stat_year1	1910
today	Romania
footnotes	Sibiu is the current name of the capital.

Szeben was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (southern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Nagyszeben (present-day Sibiu).

Geography

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

Szeben County shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Hunyad, Alsó-Fehér, Nagy-Küküllő, and Fogaras. The river Olt flowed through the county. Its area was 3619 km2 around 1910.

History

Szeben County was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. It included the former Saxon seats of Hermannstadt/Sibiu, Mühlbach/Sebeș, Reussmarkt/Miercurea, and (most of) Nocrich, as well as parts of Alsó-Fehér and Felső-Fehér counties. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian counties Sibiu and Alba (the area around Sebeș).

Demographics

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

Census	Total	Romanian	German	Hungarian
141,627	90,802 (66.27%)	40,723 (29.72%)	2,991 (2.18%)	2,497 (1.82%)
148,738	98,719 (66.37%)	42,497 (28.57%)	4,342 (2.92%)	3,180 (2.14%)
166,188	108,413 (65.24%)	47,678 (28.69%)	8,084 (4.86%)	2,013 (1.21%)
176,921	113,672 (64.25%)	49,757 (28.12%)	10,159 (5.74%)	3,333 (1.88%)

Census	Total	Eastern Orthodox	Lutheran	Greek Catholic	Roman Catholic	Calvinist
141,627	90,553 (63.94%)	33,781 (23.85%)	10,853 (7.66%)	4,680 (3.30%)	1,110 (0.78%)	650 (0.47%)
148,738	88,365 (59.41%)	39,065 (26.26%)	12,550 (8.44%)	6,414 (4.31%)	1,586 (1.07%)	758 (0.51%)
166,188	95,380 (57.39%)	43,439 (26.14%)	14,050 (8.45%)	8,747 (5.26%)	3,147 (1.89%)	1,425 (0.86%)
176,921	99,952 (56.50%)	45,912 (25.95%)	16,064 (9.08%)	9,503 (5.37%)	3,528 (1.99%)	1,962 (1.11%)

Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)	District	Capital	Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Nagydisznód	Nagydisznód (now Cisnădie)
Nagyszeben	Nagyszeben (now Sibiu)
Szászsebes	Szászsebes (now Sebeș)
Szelistye	Szelistye (now Săliște)
Szerdahely	Szerdahely (now Miercurea Sibiului)
Újegyház	Újegyház (now Nocrich)
Nagyszeben (now Sibiu)
Szászsebes (now Sebeș)

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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