Sereth district

The Sereth district ( Romanian : Siret ; Ruthenian : Seret ) was a political district in the Duchy of Bukovina . The district included areas in the east of Bukovina. The seat of the district administration was the small town of Sereth ( Siret ). The area was added to Romania after the First World War and is now part of the Romanian part of the Bukovina in north-eastern Romania.

Location map of the Sereth 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 Sereth District was formed in 1868 from the Sereth judicial district of the same name .

In the Sereth district there were 46,929 people in 1869, and by 1900 the population increased to 60,743 people. In 1900, 26,155 of the population stated Ruthenian (43.06%) as the colloquial language, 16,171 people spoke Romanian (26.62%), 10,012 German (16.48%) and 8,161 another language (13.44%). In 1900 the district covered an area of 518.80 km² and a judicial district with 39 communities and 24 manor areas .

year	Check- residents	German speakers	Ruthenian speakers	Romanian- speaking	Other languages
1869	46,929
1880	49,804	8,296	18,827	11,804	7,646
1890	54,124	9.101	22,849	14,608	7,414
1900	60,743	10,012	26,155	16,171	8,161

Localities

In 1910 there was a district court in Sereth in the area of the district, to which the following locations were assigned:

Sereth Judicial District:

City of Sereth

Individual evidence

^ 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 ..."
^ 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.
↑ General list of local communities and localities in Austria based on the results of the census of December 31, 1910, page 401 ff.

literature

kk Central Statistical Commission (ed.): Ort-Repertorium des Duchy Bukowina. Edited from the census of December 31, 1869. Cernowitz 1872
kk Central Statistical Commission (ed.): Special-Orts-Repertorium der Bukowina. Vienna 1885
kk Central Statistical Commission (ed.): Special-Orts-Repertorium der Bukowina. Revised based on the results of the census of December 31, 1890. Vienna 1894
kk Central Statistical Commission (ed.): Community encyclopedia of Bukowina. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900. Vienna 1907

[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] General list of local communities and localities in Austria based on the results of the census of December 31, 1910, page 401 ff.