Bihar County
| Bihar County Comitatus Bihariensis (Latin) Bihar vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Bihar (German) Comitatul Bihor (Romanian) |
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| County of the Kingdom of Hungary (11th century-16th century, 1692-1920), county of Partium (16th century-17th century) | |||||
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Nagyvárad 47°3′N 21°56′E / 47.050°N 21.933°ECoordinates: 47°3′N 21°56′E / 47.050°N 21.933°E |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 11th century | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | June 4, 1920 | |||
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| • | 1910 | 10,657 km2(4,115 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 646,301 | |||
| Density | 60.6 /km2 (157.1 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of | Romania, Hungary | ||||
| Oradea is the current name of the capital. | |||||
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Bihar was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary and a county of Partium (in the 17th century, when it was under the rule of the Princes of Transylvania). Its territory is now mostly in northwestern Romania, where it is administered as Bihor County, and a smaller part in eastern Hungary. The capital of the county was Nagyvárad (now Oradea in Romania).
Bihar County was situated along the upper courses of the rivers Körös, Sebes-Körös, Fekete-Körös and Berettyó. The medieval county also included Kalotaszeg region (now Țara Călatei in Romania). The total territory of the medieval county was around 10,000 km2 (3,900 sq mi).
After 1876, Bihar county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Békés, Hajdú, Szabolcs, Szatmár, Szilágy, Kolozs, Torda-Aranyos and Arad. The western half of the county was in the Pannonian plain, while the eastern half was part of the Apuseni mountains (Erdélyi-középhegység). Its area was 10,657 km2 (4,115 sq mi) around 1910.
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