Alsó-Fehér County

County Unterweißburg ( Vármegye Hungarian Alsó - Fehér, Romanian Comitatul Alba de Jos, Latin comitatus Albensis inferior) was a former administrative unit in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania and the Kingdom of Hungary. The irregular in shape area covered an area of about 3,600 km ². The main river of the county was the Mures. The hills of the crown land stretched to his left, to his right rose the mountains of the Transylvanian Erzgebirge (Hungarian Erdélyi Érchegység ).

Location

The county bordered on the counties Hunyad, Torda - Aranyos, small Kokelburg ( Kis- Küküllő ), wholesale Kokelburg ( Nagy- Küküllő ) and Sibiu ( Szeben ). By the rivers Maros county flowed ( German Mures, Romanian Mureş today ) and Küküllő ( Kokel German, Romanian today Târnava ).

History

The county was created in 1765 when the old county White Castle ( Fehér ) was divided into the Lower and Upper County. In the reorganization of administrative structures in Transylvania in 1876, the boundaries of the county were changed slightly, and in these it existed until 1918. Through the Treaty of Trianon, it was founded in 1920 Romania slammed and consisted of a circular Alba continues until 1960. It is now in the Romanian counties Alba, Sibiu ( in the southeast ), and the Mureş ( a small part in the northeast ).

Population

The census in 1910 showed a population of 221 ​​618 people, of which 39,107 Hungarians, 7,269 German and 171 483 were Romanians. As for the confessions, 11,194 of the inhabitants were Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic 85 276, 23 009 Calvinist, Lutheran and 89 724 7,283 Greek Orthodox. The Hungarians lived primarily in the chair districts Marosújvár ( Ocna Mureş ) and Nagyenyed ( Aiud ) or in the cities Gyulafehérvár ( Alba Iulia ), Vízakna ( Ocna Sibiului ) Abrudbánya ( Abrud ) and Nagyenyed ( Aiud ).

County subdivision

In the early 20th century following chair districts passed ( usually after the name of the administrative headquarters named):

All places are in the present-day Romania.