Hunyad County

County Hunyad [ huɲɒd ] ( German rarely county iron market; Hunyad Vármegye Hungarian, Romanian Comitatul Hunedoara, Latin comitatus Hunyadiensis ) was an administrative unit ( county, county ) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, the area in Transylvania in Romania lies.

Location and General Description

It bordered on the counties Arad, Torda - Aranyos, Unterweißburg ( Alsó Fehér ), Sibiu ( Szeben ) and Krassó - Szörény and in the south to the Kingdom of Romania.

Geography

The entire county is due to its location in the southern Carpathians very mountainous in the south mountains rose to almost 2,500 meters ( Retezat Mountains ). Only along the main river Mures, which flows beside the river Strell and the Shield through the area, agriculture is possible (cereals, corn, fruit, wine), otherwise mainly played the forestry and mining an economic role.

History

County Hunyad began in the 11th century and was mentioned in 1265 as Hungnod. It belonged to Transylvania, the eastern most part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The head office of the county was the castle Hunyad, later the city of Deva, became the county seat. After the occupation of Hungary by the Ottomans means the area came in the 16th century, the Principality of Transylvania, in 1711 it came with Transylvania, which was elevated to a Grand Duchy in 1765 under Habsburg suzerainty. After the Austro- Hungarian Compromise the county in 1867 was again part of the Kingdom of Hungary. When Komitatsreform of 1876 it was merged with the county Zaránd and thus received new limits.

After the end of World War I in 1918, the area came as a result of the Treaty of Trianon to Greater Romania and is now down to a narrow strip in the West, the part of the Arad county, in the district of Hunedoara.

County subdivision

The county was in the early 20th century from the following districts chair (after the name of the administrative headquarters named):

All locations are in today's Romania.