Krassó-Szörény county
Krassó-Szörény county (1910) |
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Administrative headquarters : | Lugos |
Area : | 11,032 km² |
Population : | 466.147 |
Ethnic groups : | 72% Romanians 12% Germans 7% Magyars 4% others ( Czechs and " Gypsies ") 3% Serbs 1% Slovaks 1% Ruthenians |
The county Krassó-Szörény [ ˈkrɒʃːoː ˈsøreːɲ ] ( Hungarian Krassó-Szörény vármegye , Latin comitatus Krassovinis et Severinensis , Romanian Comitatul Caraş-Severin ) was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Hungary . The area in the Banat covered an area of 11,032 km². The main river of the county is the Temesch (Hungarian Temes , Serbian Tamiš , Romanian Timiș ).
location
The county bordered on the south with Serbia and the Hungarian counties Temes , Arad and Hunyad . The Danube formed the southern border of the county, the Maros (now Romanian Mureș ) the northern border. The Temesch river flowed through the area .
history
The county was created in 1881 through the merger of the counties Krassó ( Krassóvár ) and Szörény ( Szörényvár ).
After the end of the First World War in 1918, the area was divided in the Treaty of Trianon between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the south and Romania in the north (most of it).
The census in 1910 showed a population of 466,147 people. Today the area is divided into the southwestern Romanian districts of Caraş-Severin and Timiş , a 10 kilometer wide strip along the Mureş river is in the Romanian district of Arad .
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 |
Béga, today Bega | Bálinc, today Balinț |
Boksanbánya | Boksanbánya, today Bocşa |
Bozovics | Bozovics, today Bozovici |
Facsád | Facsád, today Făget |
Jám | Jám, today Iam |
Karánsebes | Karánsebes, today Caransebeş |
Lugos | Lugos, today Lugoj |
Maros, today Mureș | Marosberkes, today Birchiș |
Oravicabánya | Oravicabánya, today Oravița |
Resicabánya | Resicabánya, today Reșița |
Temes, today Timiș | Szákul, today Sacu |
Teregova | Teregova |
Újmoldova | Újmoldova, today Moldova Nouă |
City districts (rendezett tanácsú városok) | |
Karánsebes, today Caransebeş | |
Lugos, today Lugoj |
All of the places mentioned are in what is now Romania .
See also
literature
- Krassó-Szörény . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 164.
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)