Beszterce-Naszód County

Beszterce-Naszód County
Comitatus Bistriciensis-Naszodiensis (Latin)
Beszterce-Naszód vármegye (Hungarian)
Komitat Bistritz-Naszod (German)
Comitatul Bistriţa-Năsăud (Romanian)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1876-1920, 1940-1945)
Coat of arms of Beszterce-Naszód
Coat of arms

CapitalBeszterce
Area
 • Coordinates47°8′N 24°30′E / 47.133°N 24.500°E / 47.133; 24.500
 
• 1910
4,167 km2 (1,609 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
127,800
History 
• Established
1876
4 June 1920
• County recreated (Second Vienna Award)
30 August 1940
• Disestablished
1945
Today part ofRomania
Bistrița is the current name of the capital.

Beszterce-Naszód was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in northern Romania (north-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Beszterce (now Bistrița).

Geography

Map of Beszterce-Naszód county in the Kingdom of Hungary
Map of Beszterce-Naszód, 1891.

Beszterce-Naszód county shared borders with the Kingdom of Romania, Austrian Bukovina and the Hungarian counties of Máramaros, Szolnok-Doboka, Kolozs, Maros-Torda and Csík. Its area was 4,167 km² around 1910.

History

Beszterce-Naszód county was formed in 1876, when the Saxon district of Bistritz/Bistrița was united with the former Transylvanian Military Frontier district of Năsăud (Romanian Border Regiment II), also joined by parts of the former Doboka and Belső-Szolnok counties. In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon assigned the territory of Beszterce-Naszód county to Romania. In 1940, by the Second Vienna Award, it was returned to Hungary and was expanded with additional territories from the former Kolozs County. After World War II, it became again part of Romania; the territory of the county is now in the (larger) Romanian county Bistrița-Năsăud.

Demographics

Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description)
Population by mother tongue[a]
Census Total Romanian German Hungarian Other or unknown
1880[1] 95,017 62,048 (67.47%) 23,113 (25.13%) 3,540 (3.85%) 3,260 (3.54%)
1890[2] 104,737 70,466 (67.28%) 25,268 (24.13%) 4,994 (4.77%) 4,009 (3.83%)
1900[3] 119,014 82,256 (69.11%) 26,036 (21.88%) 8,475 (7.12%) 2,247 (1.89%)
1910[4] 127,843 87,564 (68.49%) 25,609 (20.03%) 10,737 (8.40%) 3,933 (3.08%)
Population by religion[b]
Census Total Greek Catholic Lutheran Eastern Orthodox Jewish Roman Catholic Calvinist Other or unknown
1880 95,017 52,571 (55.33%) 22,129 (23.29%) 12,554 (13.21%) 2,963 (3.12%) 2,644 (2.78%) 2,087 (2.20%) 69 (0.07%)
1890 104,737 58,878 (56.22%) 22,556 (21.54%) 12,960 (12.37%) 4,349 (4.15%) 3,337 (3.19%) 2,588 (2.47%) 69 (0.07%)
1900 119,014 66,078 (55.52%) 22,874 (19.22%) 15,290 (12.85%) 6,385 (5.36%) 4,927 (4.14%) 3,349 (2.81%) 111 (0.09%)
1910 127,843 72,494 (56.71%) 22,415 (17.53%) 16,615 (13.00%) 7,254 (5.67%) 5,083 (3.98%) 3,781 (2.96%) 201 (0.16%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of the county Beszterce-Naszód were:

Districts (járás)
District Capital
  Besenyő Beszterce (now Bistrița)
  Jád Jád (now Livezile)
  Naszód Naszód (now Năsăud)
  Óradna Óradna (now Rodna)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Beszterce (now Bistrița)

Notes

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

See also

References

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