Brassó (county)

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = Comitatus
conventional_long_name = Brassó County
common_name = Brassó
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 = Romania
flag_s1 = Flag of Romania.svg
year_start = 1876
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4

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capital = Brassó
stat_area1 = 1492
stat_pop1 = 101200
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Romania
footnotes = 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).

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.

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.

ubdivisions

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