Háromszék County
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Former Subdivision Háromszék (Three Seats; Romanian: Trei Scaune) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Situated in south-eastern Transylvania, its territory is now in central Romania (in the counties of Covasna and Brașov. The capital of the county was Sepsiszentgyörgy (now Sfântu Gheorghe).
Geography
Háromszék county shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Csík, Udvarhely, Nagy-Küküllő, and Brassó. The river Olt flowed through the county. The Carpathian Mountains formed its southern and eastern border. Its area was Template:Cvt around 1910.
History
Template:Unreferenced section Háromszék means "three seats". Háromszék County was a combination of three seats of the Székelys: Kézdiszék, Orbaiszék, and Sepsiszék (plus some villages of the former Felső-Fehér County). The county was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed.
In 1920, under the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of the Kingdom of Romania under the name Trei Scaune. After the Second Vienna Award of August 1940, the county was recreated with most of its historic territory as it became part of the Northern Transylvania territory of Hungary again until October 1944, towards the end of World War II.
Afterward, it became part of Romania again; its territory lies mainly in the present Romanian county of Covasna, with a small part in the south being part of Brașov County.
Demographics
| Census | Total | Hungarian | Romanian | Other or unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 125,277 | 104,607 (86.57%) | 15,448 (12.78%) | 783 (0.65%) |
| 1890<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 130,008 | 110,799 (85.22%) | 17,360 (13.35%) | 1,849 (1.42%) |
| 1900<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 137,261 | 116,755 (85.06%) | 19,439 (14.16%) | 1,067 (0.78%) |
| 1910<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 148,080 | 123,518 (83.41%) | 22,963 (15.51%) | 1,599 (1.08%) |
| Census | Total | Calvinist | Roman Catholic | Eastern Orthodox | Unitarian | Greek Catholic | Other or unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 125,277 | 54,548 (43.54%) | 41,468 (33.10%) | 21,338 (17.03%) | 5,029 (4.01%) | 1,962 (1.57%) | 932 (0.74%) |
| 1890 | 130,008 | 55,869 (42.97%) | 43,224 (33.25%) | 22,529 (17.33%) | 4,985 (3.83%) | 2,404 (1.85%) | 997 (0.77%) |
| 1900 | 137,261 | 57,861 (42.15%) | 45,681 (33.28%) | 24,761 (18.04%) | 5,102 (3.72%) | 2,465 (1.80%) | 1,391 (1.01%) |
| 1910 | 148,080 | 60,030 (40.54%) | 49,654 (33.53%) | 28,077 (18.96%) | 5,228 (3.53%) | 3,052 (2.06%) | 2,039 (1.38%) |
Subdivisions
In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Háromszék county were:
| Districts (járás) | |
|---|---|
| District | Capital |
| Template:Color box Kézdi | Kézdivásárhely (now Târgu Secuiesc) |
| Template:Color box Miklósvár | Nagyajta (now Aita Mare) |
| Template:Color box Orbai | Kovászna (now Covasna) |
| Template:Color box Sepsi | Sepsiszentgyörgy (now Sfântu Gheorghe) |
| Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város) | |
| Kézdivásárhely (now Târgu Secuiesc) | |
| Sepsiszentgyörgy (now Sfântu Gheorghe) | |