Hajdú county
Hajdú County (1910) |
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Administrative headquarters : | Debrecen |
Area : | 3,343 km² |
Population : | 253,863 |
Ethnic groups : | 99% Magyars 1% others ( Germans , Romanians ) |
The Hajdú county (German rarely also Heiduck or Heiduckenkomitat ; Hungarian Hajdú vármegye ) was a historical administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary , the name is derived from the Hungarian word for the Heiduck .
location
It lay on the left side of the Tisza and was completely flat, fertile and in the north-western part bordered by the Tisza in places swampy. In the west of Debreczin ( Debrecen in Hungarian ) lies the formerly very fertile Puszta Hortobágy .
The county bordered the counties of Borsod , Szabolcs , Bihar , Békés (a short distance to the south), Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Heves .
history
The county was created during the administrative reform in Hungary in 1876 from parts of the Szabolcs and Bihar counties , which were merged with the Heiducken district .
In 1918 it became the now smaller Hungary and existed in this form until 1950 with small changes in area, after which it was combined with the remnants of Bihar County to form Hajdú-Bihar County .
District subdivision
In the early 20th century the following chair districts existed (mostly named after the name of the administrative seat):
Chair districts (járások) | |
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Chair district | Administrative headquarters |
Hajdúböszörmény | Hajdúböszörmény |
Hajdúszoboszló | Hajdúszoboszló |
Központ ("center") | Debrecen |
City district (törvényhatósági jogú város) | |
Debrecen | |
City districts (rendezett tanácsú városok) | |
Hajdúböszörmény | |
Hajdúszoboszló | |
Hajdúnánás |
See also
literature
- Haiduk County . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 1020–1021.
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)