Hajdú County

Coordinates: 47°32′N 21°38′E / 47.533°N 21.633°E / 47.533; 21.633
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Hajdú County
Comitatus Hajdonicalis (
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1876-1946)
County of the Second Hungarian Republic
(1946-1949)
County of the Hungarian People's Republic

(1949-1950)
Coat of arms of Hajdú
Coat of arms

CapitalDebrecen
Area
 • Coordinates47°32′N 21°38′E / 47.533°N 21.633°E / 47.533; 21.633
 
• 1910
3,343 km2 (1,291 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
253,863
History 
• Established
1876
• Merged into
Hajdú-Bihar County
16 March 1950
Today part ofHungary

Hajdú, formerly known as Hajdúság, was an administrative county (

Hajdú-Bihar
.

Geography

Hajdú county shared borders with the counties

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok. The river Tisza touched its western border. The Hortobágy National Park
steppe lies in the county. Its area was 3343 km² around 1910.

History

The Hajdúság region had a special status in the Kingdom of Hungary, but was turned into the proper county Hajdú in the 19th century. At the 1950 county reform, it was merged with

Hajdú-Bihar County, with its capital at Debrecen.[1]

Demographics

Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
Population by mother tongue[a]
Census Total Hungarian German Other or unknown
1880[2] 173,329 164,320 (97.75%) 2,788 (1.66%) 998 (0.59%)
1890[3] 190,978 189,193 (99.07%) 1,132 (0.59%) 653 (0.34%)
1900[4] 223,612 221,798 (99.19%) 972 (0.43%) 842 (0.38%)
1910[5] 253,863 251,918 (99.23%) 1,044 (0.41%) 901 (0.35%)
Population by religion[b]
Census Total
Calvinist
 Roman Catholic Greek Catholic Jewish Other or unknown
1880 173,329 135,744 (78.32%) 18,014 (10.39%) 9,986 (5.76%) 8,444 (4.87%) 1,141 (0.66%)
1890 190,978 147,141 (77.05%) 21,795 (11.41%) 10,999 (5.76%) 9,749 (5.10%) 1,294 (0.68%)
1900 223,612 166,063 (74.26%) 29,549 (13.21%) 13,509 (6.04%) 12,806 (5.73%) 1,685 (0.75%)
1910 253,863 185,648 (73.13%) 35,059 (13.81%) 15,336 (6.04%) 15,301 (6.03%) 2,519 (0.99%)

Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District Capital
Hajdúböszörmény Hajdúböszörmény
Hajdúszoboszló Hajdúszoboszló
Központ Debrecen
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Debrecen
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Hajdúböszörmény
Hajdúnánás
Hajdúszoboszló

Notes

  1. ^ Only linguistic communities > 1% are displayed.
  2. ^ Only religious communities > 1% are displayed.

References

  1. ^ Party state and county system 1949-1950 Archived 2020-08-05 at the Wayback Machine, Zempléni Múzsa
  2. ^ "Az 1881. év elején végrehajtott népszámlálás főbb eredményei megyék és községek szerint rendezve, II. kötet (1882)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  3. ^ "A Magyar Korona országainak helységnévtára (1892)". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  4. ^ "A MAGYAR KORONA ORSZÁGAINAK 1900". library.hungaricana.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  5. ^ "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
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