Fogaras County

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Fogaras County
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County of the Kingdom of Hungary
1876–1920
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CapitalFogaras
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• 1910
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History 
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Today part ofRomania
Făgăraș is the current name of the capital.

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Fogaras was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The county's capital was Fogaras (present-day Făgăraș).

Geography

Map of Fogaras county in the Kingdom of Hungary
Map of Fogaras, 1891.

Fogaras county shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Szeben, Nagy-Küküllő and Brassó. The river Olt formed most of its northern border. The ridge of the southern Carpathian Mountains forms its southern border. Its area was Template:Cvt around 1910.

History

The Fogaras region was an administrative territorial entity of the Kingdom of Hungary since the 15th century. Fogaras county was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon the county became part of Romania; Făgăraș County was created, with an identical territory. The territory lies in the present Romanian counties Brașov and Sibiu (the westernmost part).

Demographics

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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 Hungarian German Other or unknown
1880[1] 84,571 75,050 (90.92%) 2,694 (3.26%) 3,850 (4.66%) 948 (1.15%)
1890[2] 88,217 78,725 (89.24%) 4,082 (4.63%) 4,009 (4.54%) 1,401 (1.59%)
1900[3] 92,801 83,445 (89.92%) 5,159 (5.56%) 3,627 (3.91%) 570 (0.61%)
1910[4] 95,174 84,436 (88.72%) 6,466 (6.79%) 3,236 (3.40%) 1,036 (1.09%)
Population by religion[b]
Census Total Eastern Orthodox Greek Catholic Roman Catholic Lutheran Calvinist Jewish Other or unknown
1880 84,571 54,900 (64.92%) 22,787 (26.94%) 2,194 (2.59%) 2,449 (2.90%) 1,335 (1.58%) 675 (0.80%) 231 (0.27%)
1890 88,217 56,943 (64.55%) 23,142 (26.23%) 2,466 (2.80%) 2,625 (2.98%) 1,801 (2.04%) 866 (0.98%) 374 (0.42%)
1900 92,801 60,220 (64.89%) 23,850 (25.70%) 2,454 (2.64%) 2,737 (2.95%) 2,225 (2.40%) 873 (0.94%) 442 (0.48%)
1910 95,174 61,881 (65.02%) 23,651 (24.85%) 3,024 (3.18%) 2,768 (2.91%) 2,441 (2.56%) 905 (0.95%) 504 (0.53%)

Subdivisions

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In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Fogaras county were:

Districts (járás)
District Capital
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Page Template:Legend/styles.css has no content.  Törcsvár Zernest (now Zărnești)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Fogaras (now Făgăraș)

Notes

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

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
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  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.

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