Screeching area

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Romanian part of the Kreisch area
Romanian-Hungarian border in the Kreisch area

The Kreischgebiet (also Kreischland , Rum. Crișana , Hungarian Körösvidék ) is a historic landscape in the east of Hungary and northwest of Romania . It is bordered by the Mieresch River in the south, the Apuseni Mountains in the east and the Tisza in the west .

It probably owes its name to the river Kreisch (Rum. Criș , Hungarian Körös ) and its tributaries, the Schnellen Kreisch (Rum. Crișul Repede , Hungarian Sebes-Körös ), the White Kreisch (Rum. Crișul Alb , Hungarian Fehér- Körös ) and the Black Screech (Rum. Crișul Negru , Hungarian Fekete-Körös ). These flow westwards to Hungary in the Békés county and unite there to form the Kreisch .

The most important city ("capital") in the Kreisch area is Oradea (Ger. Großwardein , Hungarian Nagyvárad ), other larger cities include Arad , Aleşd , Beiuş , Salonta and Ineu in Romania and Békéscsaba , Debrecen and Gyula in Hungary.

The region was originally part of the Kingdom of Hungary , then fell after the Battle of Mohács (1526) as part of the Partiums to the Principality of Transylvania , where it belonged in the changing proportions of up 1867th The Partium, next to the Crisana also to the Satu Mare region and parts of the Banat were counted, is not part of the historical Transylvania , but is now often in the Romanian language to Transilvania added to that.

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