Gurahumora district

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The Gurahumora district ( Romanian : Gura Humorului ; Ruthenian : Gurahumora ) was a political district in the Duchy of Bukovina in Austria-Hungary . The district included areas in the southeast of Bukovina. The seat of the district administration was the municipality Gurahumora ( Gura Humorului ). The area was added to Romania after the First World War and is now part of the Romanian part of Bucovina.

Location map of the Gurahumora district within the Duchy of Bukovina (1910)

history

The modern, political districts of the Habsburg Monarchy were created around 1868 in the course of the separation of the political from the judicial administration. The area of ​​the later Gurahumora district was part of the Radautz and Suczawa districts in 1868 . On October 1, 1893, the Gurahumora judicial district was detached from the Suczawa district and the Solka judicial district from the Radautz district and merged into the Gurahumora district.

The population of the Gurahumora district in 1900 was 55,741. In 1900, 38,427 of the population stated Romanian (68.9%) as a colloquial language, 12,194 spoke German (21.9%), 1,472 Ruthenian (2.6%) and 3,399 another language (6.1%). In 1900 the district covered an area of ​​739.89 km² and two judicial districts with a total of 21 municipalities.

year Check-
residents 		German
speakers 		Ruthenian
speakers 		Romanian-
speaking 		Other
languages
1900 55,741 12,194 1,472 38,427 3,399

Localities

In 1910 there were district courts in Gurahumora and Solka on the territory of the district, and the following locations were assigned to these:

Gurahumora Judicial District:

Solka judicial district:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XVII. Piece, No. 44. "Act of May 19, 1868 on the establishment of political administrative authorities in the kingdoms ..."
  2. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XLI. Item, No. 101: Ordinance of July 10th, 1868, the implementation of the law of May 19th, 1868 (Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt Nr. 44) in Bohemia, Dalmatia, Austria under and above the Enns, Styria, Carinthia, Bukowina, Concerning Moravia, Silesia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Istria, Gorizia and Gradiska.
  3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrath 1893, XLI. Piece, No. 134: "Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior, regarding the division of the political districts of Radautz and Suczawa and the establishment of a new district authority in Gurahumora in Bukovina"
  4. ↑ General directory of local communities and localities in Austria based on the results of the census of December 31, 1910, page 400

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