Torda-Aranyos county

Torda-Aranyos County (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Torda
Area :	3,517 km²
Population :	174,375
Ethnic groups :	72% Romanians 25% Magyars 3% others (mainly Germans and Gypsies )

The Torda-Aranyos County [ tordɒ ɒrɒɲoʃ ] ( Hungarian Torda-Aranyos vármegye , Romanian Comitatul Turda-Arieş ) was a historic administrative unit (county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary .

geography

Map of Torda-Aranyos County around 1890

It covered about 3500 km², was irrigated by the Aranyos (now Romanian Arieș ) and its tributaries, was particularly mountainous in the west due to the foothills of the Bihar Mountains (Muntje le mare 1828 m). It bordered in the southwest on Arad County , in the northwest on Bihar County , in the north on Klausenburg County (Kolozs) , in the east on Maros-Torda County , in the southeast on Klein-Kokelburg (Kis-Küküllő) County , in the South to Lower Weissenburg County (Alsó-Fehér) and to the south-west to Hunyad County .

In 1881 it had 137,031 Hungarian and Romanian inhabitants, most of whom were engaged in mining, agriculture, cattle breeding and timber trading. Torda-Aranyos was rich in precious metals and mineral treasures and was crossed by a line of the Hungarian State Railways (Klausenburg-Kronstadt). The seat of the county was Torda .

history

Torda-Aranyos County was created in 1876 when the Szekler chair Aranyosszék merged with parts of Torda County .

After the end of the First World War in 1918, the area came under the Treaty of Trianon to Romania and is now in the districts of Cluj (in the north, with the city of Turda), Alba (south and west) and Mureș (east).

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
Alsójára	Alsójára, today Iara
Felvinc	Felvinc, today Unirea
Marosludas	Marosludas, today Luduș
Topánfalva	Topánfalva, today Câmpeni
Torda	Torda, today Turda
Torockó	Torockó, today Rimetea
City district (rendezett tanácsú város)
Torda, today Turda

All of the places mentioned are in what is now Romania .

See also

• List of historical counties of Hungary

literature

• Torda-Aranyos . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 757–758.

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)