Szeben County

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox Former Subdivision Szeben was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (southern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Nagyszeben (present-day Sibiu).

Geography

Map of Szeben County in the Kingdom of Hungary
Map of Szeben County, 1891.

Szeben County shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Hunyad, Alsó-Fehér, Nagy-Küküllő, and Fogaras. The river Olt flowed through the county. Its area was Template:Cvt around 1910.

History

Szeben County was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. It included the former Saxon seats of Hermannstadt/Sibiu, Mühlbach/Sebeș, Reussmarkt/Miercurea, and (most of) Nocrich, as well as parts of Alsó-Fehér and Felső-Fehér counties. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian counties Sibiu and Alba (the area around Sebeș).

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 tongueTemplate:Efn
Census Total Romanian German Hungarian Other or unknown
1880[1] 141,627 90,802 (66.27%) 40,723 (29.72%) 2,991 (2.18%) 2,497 (1.82%)
1890[2] 148,738 98,719 (66.37%) 42,497 (28.57%) 4,342 (2.92%) 3,180 (2.14%)
1900[3] 166,188 108,413 (65.24%) 47,678 (28.69%) 8,084 (4.86%) 2,013 (1.21%)
1910[4] 176,921 113,672 (64.25%) 49,757 (28.12%) 10,159 (5.74%) 3,333 (1.88%)
Population by religionTemplate:Efn
Census Total Eastern Orthodox Lutheran Greek Catholic Roman Catholic Calvinist Other or unknown
1880 141,627 90,553 (63.94%) 33,781 (23.85%) 10,853 (7.66%) 4,680 (3.30%) 1,110 (0.78%) 650 (0.47%)
1890 148,738 88,365 (59.41%) 39,065 (26.26%) 12,550 (8.44%) 6,414 (4.31%) 1,586 (1.07%) 758 (0.51%)
1900 166,188 95,380 (57.39%) 43,439 (26.14%) 14,050 (8.45%) 8,747 (5.26%) 3,147 (1.89%) 1,425 (0.86%)
1910 176,921 99,952 (56.50%) 45,912 (25.95%) 16,064 (9.08%) 9,503 (5.37%) 3,528 (1.99%) 1,962 (1.11%)

Subdivisions

File:Szeben county administrative map.jpg

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

Districts (járás)
District Capital
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />  Nagydisznód Nagydisznód (now Cisnădie)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />  Nagyszeben Nagyszeben (now Sibiu)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />  Szászsebes Szászsebes (now Sebeș)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />  Szelistye Szelistye (now Săliște)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />  Szerdahely Szerdahely (now Miercurea Sibiului)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />  Újegyház Újegyház (now Nocrich)
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />  Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Nagyszeben (now Sibiu)
Szászsebes (now Sebeș)

Notes

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