Torda-Aranyos County

County Torda - Aranyos [ tordɒ ɒrɒɲoʃ ] ( Vármegye Hungarian Torda - Aranyos, Romanian Comitatul Turda - aries) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Geography

It consisted of about 3500 km ², was from Aranyos (now Romanian aries) irrigated and its tributaries, was particularly on the west by the foothills of the mountains Bihar very mountainous ( Muntje le mare 1828 m). It bordered on the southwest by the Arad County, in the north- west by the Bihar County, in the north of the county of Cluj ( Kolozs ), to the east by the county Maros - Torda, in the southeast on the county small - Kokelburg ( Kis- Küküllő ), in south by the county Unterweißburg ( Alsó Fehér ), and on the southwest by the county Hunyad.

1881 had 137 031 Hungarian and Romanian inhabitants, who operated mostly mountain and crops, livestock and timber trade. Torda - Aranyos was rich in precious metals and mineral resources, and was supported by a line of the Hungarian State Railways ( Cluj- Brasov ) running through it. Seat of the county was Torda.

History

County Torda - Aranyos created in 1876 by ​​the merger of Szeklerstuhls Aranyosszék with parts of the county Torda.

After the end of World War I in 1918, the area came under the Treaty of Trianon to Romania and is now in the counties of Cluj ( in the north, with the city of Turda ), Alba ( south and west ), and the Mureş (east).

County subdivision

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

All these places are in the present-day Romania.