Udvarhely county
Udvarhely County (Oderhellen) (1910) |
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Administrative headquarters : | Székelyudvarhely |
Area : | 2,938 km² |
Population : | 124.173 |
Ethnic groups : | 95% Hungarians 3% Romanians 2% Germans |
The County Udvarhely [ udvɒrhɛj ] (German rarely County Oderhellen ; Hungarian Udvarhely vármegye , Romanian Comitatul Odorhei ) was an administrative unit (county, county) of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Székely Land in Transylvania . Today his area is mostly in Harghita County in central Romania .
geography
Udvarhely county bordered on Maros-Torda , Csík , Háromszék , Groß-Kokelburg (Nagy-Küküllő) and Klein-Kokelburg (Kis-Küküllő) counties . The Great Kokel (now Romanian Târnava Mare ) flows through the county , otherwise the county is heavily mountainous due to the foothills of the Harghita Mountains .
history
Udvarhely County was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed, from the previously existing Szekler chair Udvarhelyszék of the Szeklerland . In 1918 it became part of Romania under the name Odorhei , came back under Hungarian administration for a short time from 1940 to 1944 due to the Second Vienna Arbitral Award and since 1960 has been part of the three Romanian districts of Harghita , Mureș (a small part in the west) and Covasna ( small part in the southeast).
District subdivision
In the early 20th century, the county consisted of the following chair districts (named after the name of the administrative center):
Chair districts (járások) | |
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Chair district | Administrative headquarters |
Homoród, today Homorod | Oklánd, today Ocland |
Parajd | Parajd, today Praid |
Székelykeresztúr | Székelykeresztúr, today Cristuru Secuiesc |
Udvarhely | Székelyudvarhely, today Odorheiu Secuiesc |
City districts (rendezett tanácsú város) | |
Székelyudvarhely, today Odorheiu Secuiesc |
All of the places mentioned are in what is now Romania .
See also
literature
- Udvarhely . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 969.
Web links
- Entry in the Pallas Lexicon (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 12 ff.
- ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 22 ff. (1910 census)