Beszterce-Naszód

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Beszterce-Naszód County
common_name = Beszterce-Naszód
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 1876
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4

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capital = Beszterce
stat_area1 = 4333
stat_pop1 = 127800
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Romania
footnotes = Bistriţa is the current name of the capital.

Beszterce-Naszód was the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Romania (north-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was "Beszterce" (now Bistriţa).

Geography

Beszterce-Naszód county shared borders with Kingdom of Romania, the Austrian Bukovina, and the Hungarian counties Máramaros, Szolnok-Doboka, Kolozs, Maros-Torda, and Csík. Its area was 4167 km² around 1910.

History

Beszterce-Naszód county was formed in 1876, when the Transylvanian Saxon district of Beszterce/Bistritz was united with the district of Naszód (since 1861, 1762-1851 military frontier district) and part of Doboka county. In 1920 the Treaty of Trianon assigned the territory of Beszterce-Naszód county to Romania. It was occupied by Hungary between 1940-1944 during World War II.The territory of the county is now in the (larger) Romanian county Bistriţa-Năsăud.

Demographics

In 1910, county had a population of 127,843 people. Population by language:
*Romanian = 87,564
*German = 25,609
*Hungarian = 10,737

ubdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of the county Beszterce-Naszód were: