Brassó (county)

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Comitatus
Brassó County
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
1876 – 1920
Location of Brassó
Capital Brassó
History
 - Established 1876
 - Treaty of Trianon June 41920
Area
 - 1910 1,492 km² (576 sq mi)
Population
 - 1910 est. 101,200 
     Density 67.8 /km²  (175.7 /sq mi)
Today part of Romania
Braşov is the current name of the capital.

Brassó is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Braşov (Romanian, Brassó in Hungarian, Kronstadt in German).

[edit] Geography

Brassó county shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Fogaras, Nagy-Küküllő and Háromszék. The river Olt forms part of its northern border. The ridge of the southern Carpathian Mountains forms its southern border. Its area was 1499 km² around 1910.

[edit] History

The Brassó or 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. In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian county Braşov.

[edit] Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District Capital
Alvidék Földvár, RO Feldioara
Felvidék Brassó, RO Codlea
Hétfalus Hosszúfalu, RO Săcele
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Brassó, RO Braşov