Brassó County

Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox Former Subdivision Brassó was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Brassó (Brașov in Romanian, Kronstadt in German).

Geography

Map of Brassó County, 1891.

Brassó County shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties of Fogaras, Nagy-Küküllő, and Háromszék. The river Olt formed part of its northern border. The ridge of the Southern Carpathian Mountains forms its southern border. Its area was Template:Cvt around 1910.

History

The Brassó/Kronstadt region was settled by German colonists since the 12th century. Brassó County was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed, and was centered on the former Saxon seat of Kronstadt/Brașov. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian county of Brașov.

Demographics

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Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description)

Population by mother tongueTemplate:Efn

Census	Total	Hungarian	Romanian	German	Other or unknown
1880<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	83,929	23,948 (29.62%)	29,250 (36.18%)	26,579 (32.87%)	1,074 (1.33%)
1890<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86,777	26,116 (30.10%)	31,106 (35.85%)	27,802 (32.04%)	1,753 (2.02%)
1900<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	95,565	31,191 (32.64%)	33,886 (35.46%)	29,415 (30.78%)	1,073 (1.12%)
1910<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	101,199	35,372 (34.95%)	35,091 (34.68%)	29,542 (29.19%)	1,194 (1.18%)

Population by religionTemplate:Efn

Census	Total	Lutheran	Eastern Orthodox	Roman Catholic	Calvinist	Jewish	Unitarian	Greek Catholic	Other or unknown
1880	83,929	39,407 (46.95%)	31,206 (37.18%)	8,541 (10.18%)	3,228 (3.85%)	679 (0.81%)	466 (0.56%)	356 (0.42%)	46 (0.05%)
1890	86,777	39,905 (45.99%)	31,579 (36.39%)	9,837 (11.34%)	3,489 (4.02%)	868 (1.00%)	521 (0.60%)	561 (0.65%)	17 (0.02%)
1900	95,565	42,082 (44.03%)	33,901 (35.47%)	10,675 (11.17%)	5,484 (5.74%)	1,291 (1.35%)	1,030 (1.08%)	1,075 (1.12%)	27 (0.03%)
1910	101,199	42,901 (42.39%)	35,585 (35.16%)	11,886 (11.75%)	6,854 (6.77%)	1,503 (1.49%)	1,441 (1.42%)	979 (0.97%)	50 (0.05%)

Subdivisions

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In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Brassó County were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Template:Color box Alvidék	Földvár (now Feldioara)
Template:Color box Felvidék	Feketehalom (now Codlea) until 1894, then Brassó (now Brașov)
Template:Color box Hétfalu	Hosszúfalu (now Săcele)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Template:Color box Brassó (now Brașov)