Szeben County

County Sibiu ( Hungarian Vármegye Szeben, Latin comitatus Cibinensis, Romanian Comitatul Sibiu) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary in Transylvania.

Geography

It comprised with 88 municipalities ( 1881) an area of ​​about 3,600 km ², and bordered on the counties Hunyad, Unterweißburg ( Alsó Fehér ), wholesale Kokelburg ( Nagy- Küküllő ) Fogaras and the Kingdom of Romania. It is especially in the south mountainous ( Surul ). The fertile plains are traversed by the Old and the Hungarian eponymous river Zibin ( Szeben ).

1881 had 141 627 Romanian, Saxon and Hungarian inhabitants.

Headquarters was the town of Sibiu ( Sibiu Romanian, Hungarian Nagyszeben ). The 36 km From there a long time, partly in rock hewn " Karolinenstraße " on the river Alt along by the Red Tower pass into Wallachia.

History

The county was created in the Hungarian Komitatsreform 1876 from the administrative regions of Sibiu chair of Muhlbacher chair of Reußmarkter chair and Lesch Kircher chair ( seven chairs) as well as small parts of the counties Oberweißburg and Unterweißburg and existed in this form until 1918 / 1920. After the end of World War II, the area came to Romania and was here until 1960, with interruptions as Sibiu county in the old boundaries further, since the main part is in today's Sibiu county, the area around the city of Sebes is now part of Alba County.

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.