Sibiu county

Sibiu County ; (Szeben) ; (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Nagyszeben
Area :	3,618 km²
Population :	176.921
Ethnic groups :	64% Romanians; 28% Germans; 6% Hungarians; 2% others ( Slovaks , Russians , Serbs , Croats )

The County Sibiu (Hungarian vármegye Szeben , Latin comitatus Cibinensis , Romanian Comitatul Sibiu ) was a historic administrative unit (County / County ) in the Kingdom of Hungary in Transylvania .

geography

Map of Sibiu County around 1890

With its 88 municipalities (1881) it covered an area of about 3,600 km² and bordered on the counties of Hunyad , Unterweißburg (Alsó-Fehér) , Groß-Kokelburg (Nagy-Küküllő) , Fogaras and the Kingdom of Romania . It is particularly mountainous in the south ( Surul ). The fertile lowlands are traversed by the Alt and the Zibin (Szeben) river, which is named in Hungarian .

In 1881 it had 141,627 Romanian, Saxon and Hungarian inhabitants.

The official seat was the city of Sibiu (Romanian Sibiu , Hungarian Nagyszeben ). From there, the 36 km long "Karolinenstrasse", partly carved into the rock, leads along the Alt River through the Rotenturm Pass into Wallachia .

history

The county was created during the Hungarian county reform in 1876 from the administrative areas of the Hermannstädter Stuhl , the Mühlbacher Stuhl , the Reussmarkter Stuhl and the Leschkircher Stuhl ( seven chairs ) as well as small parts of the counties of Oberweißburg and Unterweissenburg and existed in this form until 1918/1920. After the end of the First World War, the area came to Romania and existed here with interruptions until 1960 as Sibiu County within the old borders, since then the main part has been in today's Sibiu County , the area around the city of Sebeş is now part of Alba 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)
Chair district	Administrative headquarters
Nagydisznód	Nagydisznód, today Cisnădie
Nagyszeben	Nagyszeben, today Sibiu
Szászsebes	Szászsebes, today Sebeş
Szelistye	Szelistye, today Sălişte
Szerdahely	Szerdahely, today Miercurea Sibiului
Újegyház	Újegyház, today Nocrich
City districts (rendezett tanácsú városok)
Nagyszeben, today Sibiu
Szászsebes, today Sebeş

All places are in today's Romania .

Web links

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↑ 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)

[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)