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Maros-Torda
Maros-Torda was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (eastern Transylvania) and has been administratively succeeded by county Mureș which consist of about half the territory of the previous Maros-Torda administrative county. Its county seat was Marosvásárhely (present-day Târgu Mureș).

Geography

Map of Maros-Torda county in the Kingdom of Hungary
Map of Maros-Torda, 1891.

Maros-Torda county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Kolozs, Beszterce-Naszód, Csík, Udvarhely, Kis-Küküllő and Torda-Aranyos. The river Mureș flowed through the county. Its area was 4,188 km around 1910.

History

Maros-Torda county was formed in 1876 on the territory of the Székely seat of Marosszék and part of Torda County. In 1920, after the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania, except after the Second Vienna Award, between 1940 until the end of World War II, when much of the county's territory was awarded to Hungary. Today, its territory lies in the present (larger) Romanian county Mureș.

Demographics

Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description)
Population by mother tongue
Census Total Hungarian Romanian German Other or unknown
1880 158,999 86,497 (56.50%) 53,650 (35.05%) 6,274 (4.10%) 6,658 (4.35%)
1890 177,860 102,572 (57.67%) 62,179 (34.96%) 6,438 (3.62%) 6,671 (3.75%)
1900 197,618 119,810 (60.63%) 67,402 (34.11%) 7,446 (3.77%) 2,960 (1.50%)
1910 219,589 134,166 (61.10%) 71,909 (32.75%) 8,312 (3.79%) 5,202 (2.37%)
Population by religion
Census Total Calvinist Greek Catholic Eastern Orthodox Roman Catholic Unitarian Jewish Lutheran Other or unknown
1880 158,999 64,522 (40.58%) 35,636 (22.41%) 24,151 (15.19%) 19,450 (12.23%) 6,451 (4.06%) 2,999 (1.89%) 5,592 (3.52%) 198 (0.12%)
1890 177,860 71,840 (40.39%) 40,235 (22.62%) 26,787 (15.06%) 22,207 (12.49%) 7,212 (4.05%) 3,735 (2.10%) 5,826 (3.28%) 18 (0.01%)
1900 197,618 78,907 (39.93%) 44,507 (22.52%) 28,989 (14.67%) 26,046 (13.18%) 7,917 (4.01%) 5,000 (2.53%) 6,205 (3.14%) 47 (0.02%)
1910 219,589 85,692 (39.02%) 49,911 (22.73%) 31,266 (14.24%) 30,828 (14.04%) 7,894 (3.59%) 7,550 (3.44%) 6,442 (2.93%) 6 (0.00%)

Subdivisions

Contemporary map about the county

Around 1910, the subdivisions of Maros-Torda county were:

Districts (járás)
District Capital
  Marosi alsó Marosvásárhely (now Târgu Mureș)
  Marosi felső Marosvásárhely (now Târgu Mureș)
  Nyárádszereda Nyárádszereda (now Miercurea Nirajului)
  Régeni alsó Szászrégen (now Reghin)
  Régeni felső Magyarrégen (now Reghin-Sat)
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
  Marosvásárhely (now Târgu Mureș)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Szászrégen (now Reghin)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Only linguistic communities > 1% are displayed.
  2. ^ Only religious communities > 1% are displayed.

References

  1. ^ "Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. ^ "A Magyar Korona országainak helységnévtára (1892)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  3. ^ "A MAGYAR KORONA ORSZÁGAINAK 1900". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  4. ^ "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
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