Cluj County (Greater Romania)

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Cluj County in the Kingdom of Romania (1919–1949)
The 9 districts in Cluj County (1938)
Coat of arms of the Cluj County in the interwar period

The district of Cluj or District Cojocna ( Romanian Județul Cluj ) was the successor to the County of Cluj ( Hungarian Kolozs vármegye ) a historical administrative unit in Transylvania part of the Kingdom of Romania . The seat of the administration and the tribunal was the city of Cluj .

The Cluj County existed from 1920 to 1950, when the Jews were abolished as part of the Soviet organization of Romania . In 1930, according to various sources, 333,545 or 334,991 people were registered in what was then Cluj County.

Geographical location

East of the Bihor Mountains (Munții Bihorului) over the Somesch Highlands (Podișul Someșan) to the middle of the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) , the district extended to about 4,813 square kilometers.

The nine districts of the county were: Aghireșu with 28 villages, Borșa with 21 villages, Călata with 25 villages, Cluj with 27 villages, Gilău with 24 villages, Hida with 28 villages, Huedin with 28 villages, Mociu with 28 villages and Sărmașu with 21 Villages.

Data from the 1930 census

Individual evidence

  1. a b Județul Cluj at Portretul României interbelice accessed on July 22, 2018 (Romanian)
  2. Recensamantul general al populatiei Romaniei din 29 decembrie 1930

Web links

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