Udvarhely county

Udvarhely County (Oderhellen) (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Székelyudvarhely
Area :	2,938 km²
Population :	124.173
Ethnic groups :	95% Hungarians 3% Romanians 2% Germans

The County Udvarhely [ udvɒrhɛj ] (German rarely County Oderhellen ; Hungarian Udvarhely vármegye , Romanian Comitatul Odorhei ) was an administrative unit (county, county) of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Székely Land in Transylvania . Today his area is mostly in Harghita County in central Romania .

geography

Map of Udvarhely county around 1890

Udvarhely county bordered on Maros-Torda , Csík , Háromszék , Groß-Kokelburg (Nagy-Küküllő) and Klein-Kokelburg (Kis-Küküllő) counties . The Great Kokel (now Romanian Târnava Mare ) flows through the county , otherwise the county is heavily mountainous due to the foothills of the Harghita Mountains .

history

Udvarhely County was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed, from the previously existing Szekler chair Udvarhelyszék of the Szeklerland . In 1918 it became part of Romania under the name Odorhei , came back under Hungarian administration for a short time from 1940 to 1944 due to the Second Vienna Arbitral Award and since 1960 has been part of the three Romanian districts of Harghita , Mureș (a small part in the west) and Covasna ( small part in the southeast).

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
Homoród, today Homorod	Oklánd, today Ocland
Parajd	Parajd, today Praid
Székelykeresztúr	Székelykeresztúr, today Cristuru Secuiesc
Udvarhely	Székelyudvarhely, today Odorheiu Secuiesc
City districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Székelyudvarhely, today Odorheiu Secuiesc

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

See also

• List of historical counties of Hungary

literature

• Udvarhely . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 969.

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)