Klein-Kokelburg County

Klein-Kokelburg County ; (Kis-Küküllő) ; (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Dicsőszentmárton
Area :	1,724 km²
Population :	116.091
Ethnic groups :	48% Romanians; 30% Hungarians; 17.5% Germans; 4.5% others

The Kis-Küküllő County (German and County Small Kokel or rarely County Kleinkokeln ; Hungarian Kis-Küküllő vármegye , Romanian Comitatul Târnava-Mică ) was an administrative unit ( county , county ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Today the area is in Transylvania in Romania .

Location and general

Map of Klein-Kokelburg County around 1890

It bordered on the counties of Torda-Aranyos , Maros-Torda , Udvarhely , Groß-Kokelburg (Nagy-Küküllő) and Unterweißburg (Alsó-Fehér) .

The German name Kokelburg is derived from the Kokelburg Castle (today Cetatea de Baltă ), which was the administrative center of the predecessor Comitat in the Middle Ages. However, it is named after the Kleine Kokel river flowing through the county .

geography

The entire county is very hilly due to its location in the south of the Transylvanian Basin and is traversed by the eponymous river Kleine Kokel (today Romanian Târnava Mică ) and on the southern border by the river Grosse Kokel (today Romanian Târnava Mare ). Due to the mild climate there was a flourishing agriculture in the county; Trade and handicrafts were also well developed.

history

Map of Kokelburg County around 1770

Klein-Kokelburg County was established in 1876 when the Kokelburg County ( Küküllő vármegye in Hungarian ), which previously existed in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania , was dissolved together with the neighboring Saxon chairs of Mediasch , Schäßburg and Hermannstadt and divided into the Klein- and Groß-Kokelburg counties. The administrative seat was initially Erzsébetváros (now Romanian Dumbrăveni ), later it became Dicsőszentmárton (now Romanian Târnăveni ).

After the end of the First World War in 1918, the area came to Greater Romania as a result of the Treaty of Trianon and initially continued to exist here as a Județ (district) Târnava-Mică. In 1950 an administrative reform took place in which the district became part of the Brașov region. After the return to the Județe principle, the territory of the former county was divided up, with the area around Târnăveni being assigned to Mureş County , the southwest to Alba County and the area around Dumbrăveni to Sibiu County .

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
Dicsőszentmárton	Dicsőszentmárton, today Târnăveni
Erzsébetváros	Erzsébetváros, today Dumbrăveni
Hosszúaszó	Hosszúaszó, today Valea Lungă
Radnót	Radnót, today Iernut
City districts (rendezett tanácsú városok)
Dicsőszentmárton, today Târnăveni
Erzsébetváros, today Dumbrăveni

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)