Beszterce-Naszód County Comitatus Bistriciensis-Naszodiensis (Latin) Beszterce-Naszód vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Bistritz-Naszod (German) Comitatul Bistriţa-Năsăud (Romanian) |
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County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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Beszterce 47°8′N 24°30′E / 47.133°N 24.500°ECoordinates: 47°8′N 24°30′E / 47.133°N 24.500°E |
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History | |||||
• | Established | 1876 | |||
• | Treaty of Trianon | June 4, 1920 | |||
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• | 1910 | 4,333 km2(1,673 sq mi) | |||
Population | |||||
• | 1910 | 127,800 | |||
Density | 29.5 /km2 (76.4 /sq mi) | ||||
Today part of | Romania | ||||
Bistrița is the current name of the capital. |
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Beszterce-Naszód was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in northern Romania (north-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Beszterce (now Bistrița).
Beszterce-Naszód county shared borders with the 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.
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. In 1940 by the Second Vienna Award it was returned to Hungary and was occupied until 1944 during World War II. The territory of the county is now in the (larger) Romanian county Bistrița-Năsăud.