Bistritz-Naszod county

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Bistritz-Naszod County
(Beszterce-Naszód)
(1910)
Coat of arms of Bistritz-Naszod (Beszterce-Naszód)
Administrative headquarters : Beszterce
Area : 4,333 km²
Population : 127.843
Ethnic groups : 68.5% Romanians
8.5% Hungarians
20% Germans
3% others
Bistritz-Naszod county

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

Map of Bistritz-Naszod County around 1890

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)
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

Web links

  • Entry in the Pallas Lexicon (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 12 ff.
  2. ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 22 ff. (1910 census)