Bistritz-Naszod county
Bistritz-Naszod County (Beszterce-Naszód) (1910) |
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Administrative headquarters : | Beszterce |
Area : | 4,333 km² |
Population : | 127.843 |
Ethnic groups : | 68.5% Romanians 8.5% Hungarians 20% Germans 3% others |
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The Bistritz-Naszod County (German also Bistritz-Nassod County ; Hungarian Beszterce-Naszód vármegye , Romanian Comitatul Bistrița-Năsăud ) was an administrative unit ( county or county ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Today the area is in north-eastern Transylvania in Romania .
location
It bordered the counties of Máramaros , Maros-Torda , Klausenburg (Kolozs) and Szolnok-Doboka as well as the Austrian crown land Bukowina in the northeast and the Kingdom of Romania for a short stretch in the southeast .
geography
The entire county is very mountainous due to its location in the Carpathian Mountains , the Great Somesch (now Romanian Someș ) with its tributaries flows through the area . Due to the unfavorable location in the mountains, the land was not particularly fertile, the inhabitants lived mainly from forestry and mining.
history
The Bistritz-Naszod County was created after the administrative reform in Transylvania in 1876 from the Bistritz district in the autonomous area of the National University of Transylvania , the Naszod District , which had existed since 1861, and a small part of the former Doboka County .
After the end of the First World War in 1918, the area came under the Treaty of Trianon to Greater Romania and is now in the Bistrița-Năsăud district .
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 |
Besenyő, today Viișoara | Beszterce, today Bistrița |
Jád, today Livezile | Beszterce, today Bistrița |
Naszód | Naszód, today Năsăud |
Óradna | Óradna, today Rodna |
City district (rendezett tanácsú város) | |
Beszterce, today Bistrița |
All places are in today's Romania .
See also
literature
- Bistritz-Naszód . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 987.
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)