Csík County
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
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::summary County of the Kingdom of Hungary ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| native_name | |
| conventional_long_name | Csík County |
| common_name | Csík |
| subdivision | County |
| nation | the Kingdom of Hungary |
| (1876-1920, 1940-1945) | |
| year_start | 1876 |
| event1 | Treaty of Trianon |
| date_event1 | 4 June 1920 |
| event2 | County recreated (Second Vienna Award) |
| date_event2 | 30 August 1940 |
| event3 | Disestablished |
| date_event3 | 1945 |
| image_coat | Csik coatofarms.jpg |
| image_map | Csík vármegye Magyarországon.svg |
| capital | Csíkszereda |
| coordinates | |
| stat_area1 | 4859 |
| stat_pop1 | 145720 |
| stat_year1 | 1910 |
| today | Romania |
| footnotes | Miercurea Ciuc is the current name of the capital. |
| :: |
|native_name = |conventional_long_name = Csík County |common_name = Csík |subdivision = County |nation = the Kingdom of Hungary (1876-1920, 1940-1945) |p1 = |s1 = |year_start = 1876 |event1 = Treaty of Trianon |date_event1 = 4 June 1920 |event2 = County recreated (Second Vienna Award) |date_event2 = 30 August 1940 |event3 = Disestablished |date_event3 = 1945 |event_end = |year_end = |date_end = |image_coat = Csik coatofarms.jpg |image_map = Csík vármegye Magyarországon.svg |capital = Csíkszereda |coordinates = |stat_area1 = 4859 |stat_pop1 = 145720 |stat_year1 = 1910 |today = Romania |footnotes = Miercurea Ciuc is the current name of the capital. Csík (Hungarian, in Romanian: Ciuc) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Csíkszereda (now Miercurea Ciuc).
Geography
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Csík_county_map.jpg" caption="Map of Csík, 1891." alt="Map of Csík county in the Kingdom of Hungary"] ::
Csík county shared borders with Kingdom of Romania and the Hungarian counties of Beszterce-Naszód, Maros-Torda, Udvarhely and Háromszék. The county was situated in the Carpathian Mountains, around the sources and upper courses of the rivers Olt and Mureș. Its area was 4,859 km2 around 1910.
History
Csík county consisted of three former seats of the Székelys: Csíkszék, Gyergyószék and Kászonszék (the latter two as filial seats of the former). It was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. It was returned to Hungary by the Second Vienna Award of 1940. After World War II, it became again part of Romania. Most of its territory lies in the present-day Romanian county of Harghita, with small parts in Suceava, Neamț and Bacău.
Demographics
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Csík_ethnic_map.png" caption="Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description)"] ::
::data[format=table title="Population by [[First language|mother tongue]]{{efn|Only linguistic communities > 1% are displayed.}}"]
| Census | Total | Hungarian | Romanian | Other or unknown | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110,940 | 92,802 (86.92%) | 12,836 (12,02%) | 1,135 (1.06%) | |||||
| 114,110 | 98,861 (86.64%) | 14,470 (12.68%) | 779 (0.68%) | |||||
| 128,382 | 110,963 (86.43%) | 15,936 (12.41%) | 1,483 (1.16%) | |||||
| 145,720 | 125,888 (86.39%) | 18,032 (12.37%) | 1,800 (1.24%) | |||||
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::data[format=table title="Population by [[religion]]{{efn|Only religious communities > 1% are displayed.}}"]
| Census | Total | Roman Catholic | Greek Catholic | Jewish | Calvinist | Other or unknown | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110,940 | 91,627 (82.59%) | 17,485 (15.76%) | 528 (0.48%) | 321 (0.29%) | 979 (0.88%) | |||||
| 114,110 | 93,415 (81.86%) | 18,532 (16.24%) | 706 (0.62%) | 465 (0.41%) | 992 (0.87%) | |||||
| 128,382 | 104,287 (81.23%) | 21,100 (16.44%) | 1,518 (1.18%) | 956 (0.74%) | 521 (0.41%) | |||||
| 145,720 | 117,351 (80.53%) | 23,724 (16.28%) | 2,357 (1.62%) | 1,689 (1.16%) | 599 (0.41%) | |||||
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Subdivisions
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Csík_county_administrative_map.jpg" caption="Contemporary map of the county"] ::
In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Csík county were:
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| Districts (járás) | District | Capital | Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felcsík | Csíkszereda (now Miercurea Ciuc) | ||
| Gyergyószentmiklós | Gyergyószentmiklós (now Gheorgheni) | ||
| Gyergyótölgyes | Gyergyótölgyes (now Tulgheș) | ||
| Kászonalcsík | Csíkszentmárton (now Sânmartin) | ||
| Szépvíz (from 1913) | Szépvíz (now Frumoasa) | ||
| Csíkszereda (now Miercurea Ciuc) | |||
| Gyergyószentmiklós (now Gheorgheni) | |||
| :: |
Notes
References
References
- "Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu.
- "A Magyar Korona országainak helységnévtára (1892)". library.hungaricana.hu.
- "A MAGYAR KORONA ORSZÁGAINAK 1900". library.hungaricana.hu.
- "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu.
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