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Torda-Aranyos County

Administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary

Summary

Administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary

Field	Value
native_name
conventional_long_name	Torda-Aranyos County
common_name	Torda-Aranyos
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_Torda-Aranyos_(history).svg
image_map	Torda-Aranyos vármegye Magyarországon.svg
capital	Torda
coordinates
stat_area1	3514
stat_pop1	174400
stat_year1	1910
today	Romania
footnotes	Turda is the current name of the capital.

Torda-Aranyos was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (central Transylvania). The capital of the county was Torda (present-day Turda).

Geography

''Map of Torda-Aranyos county in the Kingdom of Hungary'' — Map of Torda-Aranyos, 1891.

Torda-Aranyos county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Arad, Bihar, Kolozs, Maros-Torda, Kis-Küküllő, Alsó-Fehér and Hunyad. The rivers Mureș and Arieș flowed through the county. Its area was 3,514 km2 around 1910.

History

Torda-Aranyos county was formed in 1876, when the western part of the Torda County and the Székely seat of Aranyosszék (plus small parts of Alsó-Fehér County) were united. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian counties of Cluj (the north, including Turda), Alba (the south and west) and Mureș (the east).

Demographics

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

Census	Total	Romanian	Hungarian
137,031	96,809 (73.15%)	30,472 (23.02%)	5,063 (3.83%)
150,564	107,491 (71.39%)	37,590 (24.97%)	5,483 (3.64%)
160,579	116,833 (72.76%)	40,806 (25.41%)	2,940 (1.83%)
174,375	125,668 (72.07%)	44,630 (25.59%)	4,077 (2.34%)

Census	Total	Greek Catholic	Eastern Orthodox	Calvinist	Unitarian	Roman Catholic	Jewish
137,031	56,169 (40.99%)	47,050 (34.34%)	18,781 (13.71%)	8,991 (6.56%)	4,390 (3.20%)	1,355 (0.99%)	295 (0.22%)
150,564	62,023 (41.19%)	49,131 (32.63%)	22,506 (14.95%)	9,480 (6.30%)	5,253 (3.49%)	1,931 (1.28%)	240 (0.16%)
160,579	66,293 (41.28%)	52,457 (32.67%)	23,607 (14.70%)	10,005 (6.23%)	5,490 (3.42%)	2,465 (1.54%)	262 (0.16%)
174,375	72,672 (41.68%)	56,748 (32.54%)	25,526 (14.64%)	9,932 (5.70%)	6,539 (3.75%)	2,357 (1.35%)	310 (0.18%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Torda-Aranyos county were:

Districts (járás)	District	Capital	Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Alsójára	Alsójára (now Iara)
Felvinc	Felvinc (now Unirea)
Marosludas	Marosludas (now Luduș)
Topánfalva	Topánfalva (now Câmpeni)
Turda	Torda (now Turda)
Torockó	Torockó (now Rimetea)
Torda (now Turda)

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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