Kis-Küküllő County

County Small Kokelburg ( German county also small Kokel or rarely county Kleinkokeln; Hungarian Kis- Küküllő Vármegye, Romanian Comitatul Târnava - Mica ) 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 Torda - Aranyos, Maros - Torda, Udvarhely, wholesale Kokelburg ( Nagy- Küküllő ) and Unterweißburg ( Alsó Fehér ).

The German name Kokelburg is derived from the castle Kokelburg (now Cetatea de Baltă ), which was the administrative center of Vorgängerkomitats in the Middle Ages. The name derives, however, is the county flowing river Small Kokel.

Geography

The entire county is due to its location in the south of the Transylvanian Basin is very hilly and from the eponymous river Small Kokel (Romanian today Târnava Mica ) and on the southern border of the River Great Kokel (now Târnava Mare Romanian) flowing through it. Due to the mild climate, yet there was a flourishing agriculture in the county; also the trade and the craft were strongly developed.

History

County Small Kokelburg was established in 1876 when the previously in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania existing county Kokelburg ( Küküllő ) ( the two chairs) and Sighisoara dissolved together with the neighboring Saxon chairs Medias Schelk and divided into the counties small and large - Kokelburg been. Administrative headquarters was initially Erzsébetváros (now Romanian Dumbrăveni ), later it was Dicsőszentmárton (now Romanian Târnăveni ).

After the end of World War I in 1918, the area came as a result of the Treaty of Trianon to Greater Romania and was here first further than Judet ( county ) Târnava - Mica. In 1950 an administrative reform, in which the district was part of the Brasov region. After returning to the principle of Judeţe you divided the territory of the former county, the area around the circle Târnăveni Mureş, the southwest on the Alba county and the area was to Dumbrăveni assigned to the Sibiu county.

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.