Máramaros county

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Máramaros County
(Maramures)
(1910)
Coat of arms of Maramaros (Maramures)
Administrative headquarters : Máramarossziget
Area : 9,716 km²
Population : 357.705
Ethnic groups : 44% Russians
24% Romanians
17% Germans
15% Magyars
Máramaros county

The Máramaros County ( German  and county of Maramures and Maramures ; Hungarian Máramaros vármegye or older Marmaros , Latin comitatus Maramarosiensis ) was an administrative unit (county, county) in the Kingdom of Hungary . Today the northern part is in western Ukraine (in the Transcarpathian Oblast ) and the southern part in north-western Romania (in Maramureș County ).

location

Map of Máramaros County around 1890

The county bordered in the north and northeast on the Austrian Duchy of Galicia (or before 1772 on Poland ), on a small piece in the east on the Austrian crown land Bukowina in the east south on the county Bistritz-Naszod (Beszterce-Naszód) , in the south the Szolnok-Doboka County , on the southwest by the County Satu Mare (Szatmár) and the small Ugocsa County and the west by the Bereg County .

It lay between the mountain range of the Carpathians in the north and on both sides of the Tisza and in 1910 had 357,705 inhabitants on an area of ​​9,716 km².

District subdivision

In the early 20th century the following administrative division existed:

Chair districts (járások)
Chair district Administrative headquarters
Dolha Dolha, today Довге / Dowhe
Huszt Huszt, today Хуст / Chust
Izavölgy ("Izatal") Dragomérfalva, today Dragomireşti
Ökörmező Ökörmező, today Міжгірья / Mischhirja
Sugatag Aknasugatag, today Ocna Șugatag
Sziget Máramarossziget, today Sighetu Marmației
Taracviz (" Tereswa Waters ") Taracköz, today Тересва / Tereswa
Técső Técső today Тячів / Tyachiv
Tiszavölgy ("Theiss valley") Rahó, today Рахів / Rachiw
Visó Felsővisó, today Vișeu de Sus
City district (rendezett tanácsú város)
Máramarossziget, today Sighetu Marmației

The places Dragomireşti , Ocna Șugatag , Sighetu Marmației and Vişeu de Sus are in today's Romania , the rest in today's Ukraine .

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)
  3. ^ Lorenz von Crell : Chemische Annalen für die Freunde der Naturlehre, Arzneygelahrheit, Hausungskunst und Manufakturen , Helmstadt 1794. books.google.de