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Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:More citations needed Шаблон:Infobox Former Subdivision Arad County was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Hungary, the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and the Principality of Transylvania. The county was established along the Maros (Mureș) river in the 11th or the 12th century, but its first head, or ispán, was only mentioned in 1214. Its territory is now part of Romania, except a small area (the town of Elek and the surrounding villages) which is part of Hungary. The capital of the county was Arad.

Geography

Map of Arad county in the Kingdom of Hungary
Map of Arad, 1891.

The medieval Arad County was situated in the lands along both banks of the Maros (Mureș) River.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The existence of arable lands, pastures, vineyards and orchards in the western lowlands in the Middle Ages is well-documented.Шаблон:Sfn The hilly eastern regions were sparsely populated.Шаблон:Sfn The total territory of the medieval county was around Шаблон:Convert.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1744, Arad County absorbed a large part of Zaránd County, including its capital Zaránd/Zărand (the remainder of Zarand County was then reorganized, with Körösbánya/Baia de Criș as the new capital). In 1876, when the administrative structure of the Kingdom of Hungary was changed, the territory of Arad County was further modified to include the western third of the diminished Zaránd County, namely the Nagyhalmágy/Hălmagiu district (Zarand County was disbanded altogether on that occasion).

Arad County shared borders with the Hungarian counties of Csanád, Békés, Bihar, Torda-Aranyos, Hunyad, Krassó-Szörény, Temes and Torontál. The river Mureș formed its southern border. Crişul Alb River flowed through the county. Its area was Шаблон:Convert around 1910.

History

Origins

The Hungarians dominated the region of the Maros in the middle of the 10th century, according to the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Archaeological finds also shows that Hungarians settled in the plains along the river after their arrival in the Carpathian Basin at the end of the 9th century.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Place names of Slavic origin, including Lipova (Lippa) and Zăbrani (Temeshidegkút), evidence the presence of Slavic speaking communities, especially in the region where the river, coming from the mountains, reached the lowlands.Шаблон:Sfn

A powerful chieftain, Ajtony, ruled the territory along the rivers Danube, Maros and Tisza in the early 11th century.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Maros formed the northern border of Ajtony's realm, according to the Gesta Hungarorum, but the longer version of the Legend of Saint Gerard wrote that he controlled the lands as far as the Körös River.Шаблон:Sfn Ajtony was killed in a battle against the army of Stephen I of Hungary, which was under the command of Csanád.Шаблон:Sfn According to a scholarly theory, first proposed by historian György Györffy, Stephen I established Arad County after Ajtony's fall.Шаблон:Sfn On the other hand, historian Gyula Kristó writes that Ajtony's whole realm was transformed into the large Csanád County during Stephen I's reign; Arad County only developed into a separate administrative unit in the second half of the 11th century or in the 12th century.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Middle Ages

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Arad County in the 14th century

The remains of an 11th-century stronghold, made of earth and timber, were found at Arad.Шаблон:Sfn At an assembly held in Arad in 1131, the wife of King Béla the Blind, Helena of Rascia, ordered the massacre of 68 Hungarian lords.Шаблон:Sfn Arad Castle and the estates attached to it were first documented in a royal charter, issued in 1177.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The first known ispán, or head, of Arad County, Paul Csanád, was mentioned in a royal diploma, dated to 1214, but its authenticity is suspect.Шаблон:Sfn The earliest authentic document that referred to an ispán of Arad was issued in 1240.Шаблон:Sfn The western regions of the county were included in the Deanery of Arad of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Csanád; the Archdean of Arad was first mentioned in 1288.Шаблон:Sfn

The earliest documents suggest that the kings owned most lands in the plains along the Maros.Шаблон:Sfn However, the distribution of royal domains started at the end of the 11th century.Шаблон:Sfn For instance, Ladislaus I of Hungary and his brother, Lampert, granted five villages to the Titel Chapter before 1095 and Béla the Blind established the Arad Chapter in the 1130s.Шаблон:Sfn The Hodos clan was the only local noble kindred in the county; they were the patrons of the Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery.Шаблон:Sfn Members of the Csanád, Csák and Dorozsma clans received estates in Arad County in the early 13th century.Шаблон:Sfn

The effects of the Mongol invasion of Hungary cannot exactly be determined, but at least four monasteries disappeared.Шаблон:Sfn Solymos Castle (in present-day Șoimoș in Lipova), the first fortress built by a nobleman in the county, was erected after the withdrawal of the Mongols.Шаблон:Sfn Ecclesiastic institutions, prelates and lay lordsШаблон:Spaced ndashincluding the bishop of Csanád, the Arad Chapter and the Garais, Lackfis and TelegdisШаблон:Spaced ndashheld most former royal estates in the first half of the 14th century.Шаблон:Sfn The existence of four elected "judges of the nobles" was first documented in 1311, proving that Arad County had transformed into a "noble county", an institution of the local noblemen's self-government.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Lippa (present-day Lipova) became the most prosperous settlement in the early 14th century: the tax payable by the local priest to the Holy See between 1333 and 1335 (266 dinars) was almost ten times higher than the average tax collected in other parishes.Шаблон:Sfn The Slavs of the district of Lipova were converted into Catholicism in the middle of the century, according to John of Küküllő's contemporaneous chronicle.Шаблон:Sfn The earliest Romanian place name in the countyШаблон:Spaced ndashCaprewar (now Căprioara)Шаблон:Spaced ndashwas recorded in a list of the estates of the Telegdis which was completed in 1337.Шаблон:Sfn

Modern Times

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Csanád, Arad and Torontál counties after the Treaty of Trianon. In 1923, the three counties were merged to form Csanád-Arad-Torontál County.

In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon assigned most of the territory of Arad county to Romania, except for a small area south of Békéscsaba, which became part of the newly formed Hungarian county of Csanád-Arad-Torontál in 1923. At the end of World War II, the Hungarian part of Arad county was merged into the recreated Csanád county, but in 1950 that county was split and its territory became part of Békés County.

The rest of the county is now part of the Arad County in Romania. This county also contains parts of the former counties Temes and Krassó-Szörény.

Demographics

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Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
Population by mother tongueШаблон:Efn
Census Total Romanian Hungarian German Slovak Other or unknown
1880[1] 303,964 185,241 (63.35%) 67,613 (23,12%) 30,931 (10.58%) 2,938 (1.00%) 5,669 (1.94%)
1890[2] 343,597 208,957 (60.81%) 86,780 (25.26%) 37,303 (10.86%) 4,157 (1.21%) 6,400 (1.86%)
1900[3] 386,100 223,806 (57.97%) 110,823 (28.70%) 40,148 (10.40%) 5,600 (1.45%) 5,723 (1.48%)
1910[4] 414,388 239,755 (57.86%) 124,215 (29.98%) 38,695 (9.34%) 5,451 (1.32%) 6,272 (1.51%)
Population by religionШаблон:Efn
Census Total Eastern Orthodox Roman Catholic Calvinist Greek Catholic Lutheran Jewish Other or unknown
1880 303,964 186,758 (61.44%) 75,304 (24.77%) 17,519 (5.76%) 11,079 (3.64%) 5,151 (1.69%) 8,018 (2.64%) 135 (0.04%)
1890 343,597 201,984 (58.79%) 91,045 (26.50%) 20,787 (6.05%) 13,140 (3.82%) 7,495 (2.18%) 8,924 (2.60%) 222 (0.06%)
1900 386,100 215,904 (55.92%) 109,523 (28.37%) 24,849 (6.44%) 15,134 (3.92%) 9,954 (2.58%) 10,085 (2.61%) 651 (0.17%)
1910 414,388 230,907 (55.72%) 117,630 (28.39%) 26,709 (6.45%) 16,318 (3.94%) 10,950 (2.64%) 10,102 (2.44%) 1,772 (0.43%)

Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District Capital
Шаблон:Color box Arad Arad
Шаблон:Color box Borosjenő Borosjenő (now Ineu)
Шаблон:Color box Borossebes Borossebes (now Sebiş)
Шаблон:Color box Elek Elek
Шаблон:Color box Kisjenő Kisjenő (now Chișineu-Criș)
Шаблон:Color box Magyarpécska Magyarpécska (now Pecica)
Шаблон:Color box Máriaradna Máriaradna (now Radna)
Шаблон:Color box Nagyhalmágy Nagyhalmágy (now Hălmagiu)
Шаблон:Color box Tornova Tornova (now Târnova)
Шаблон:Color box Világos Világos (now Șiria)
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Шаблон:Color box Arad

Elek is now in Hungary. All the other towns mentioned are in Romania.

List of ispáns

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Middle Ages

Term Incumbent Monarch Notes Source
1214 Clement Andrew II son of Benedict from the kindred Csanád [5]
1238 Paul Béla IV [5]
1240 Saul Béla IV [5]
c. 1310 Alexander Charles I for voivode Ladislaus Kán; castellan of Solymos [6]
1311 Dominic Charles I for voivode Ladislaus Kán; castellan of Solymos [6]
1319–1321 Thomas Széchényi Charles I also master of the treasury for the Queen (1320–1321), voivode (1321–1342), castellan of Solymos [6]
1321–1372 Arad County was administered by voivodes of Transylvania, who appointed deputies. [6]
1351 Blaise Pósafi de Szer Louis I for duke Stephen, castellan of Hátszeg [6]
1391 George Báthory Sigismund from the Somlyó branch [7]
1393–1401 Arad County was administered by voivodes of Transylvania, who appointed deputies. [7]
1404–1426 Pipo of Ozora Sigismund also ispán of Temes County [7]
c. 1427 Emeric Pálóci Sigismund [7]
c. 1437 John Országh de Guth Sigismund also castellan of Világosvár; ispán of Zaránd and Csongrád Counties [7]
1441–1444 Ladislaus Maróti Vladislaus I
Ladislaus V
together with John Hunyadi (1443–1444); also ban of Macsó (1441–1443); ispán of Zaránd and Békés Counties [7][8]
1443–1456 John Hunyadi Vladislaus I
Ladislaus V
together with Ladislaus Maróti (1443–1444), with Nicholas Újlaki (1444–1446); also voivode (1443–1446); regent-governor of the Kingdom of Hungary (1446–1452) [7]
1444–1446 Nicholas Újlaki Ladislaus V together with John Hunyadi; also voivode; ban of Severin (1445–1446) [7]

Habsburg rule

Term Incumbent Monarch Notes Source
1526–1527 Gáspár Paksy Ferdinand I
John I
for John I, later Ferdinand I
1527–1614 Unknown office-holders [9]
1614 András Dóczy Matthias II also ispán of Szatmár County [9]
1614–1702 Unknown office-holders [9]
1702–1713 Ferenc Klobusiczky Leopold I
Joseph I

Charles III

also chief justice (1702–1707); later Kuruc senator and ispán for Francis II Rákóczi [9]
1713–1736 Pál Consbruch Charles III died in office [9]
1737–1743 Unknown office-holder(s) [9]
1743–1744 Zsigmond Andrássy Maria Theresa administrator [9]
1744–1751 Antal Grassalkovich Maria Theresa also chief justice (1744–1748) [9]
1751–1788 György Fekete Maria Theresa
Joseph II
also chief justice (1751–1762); vice-chancellor (1762–1773); master of the stewards (1766–1773); judge royal (1773–1783); director of the royal treasury (1782); died in office [9]
1788–1790 Vacant Joseph II [9]
1790–1821 Pál Almásy Leopold II
Francis
also master of the horse (1812–1821); poisoned [9]
1822–1830 József Wenckheim Francis died in office [9]
1830–1837 Lőrinc Orczy Francis
Ferdinand V
[9]
1837–1845 István Szerencsy Ferdinand V [9]
1845–1848 József Fascho de Lucsivna Ferdinand V [9]
1848–1849 János Bohus de Világos Ferdinand V first term [9]
1849 József Tomcsányi Francis Joseph I [9]
1849–1860 Military District of Großwardein
1860–1861 János Bohus de Világos Francis Joseph I second term
1861–1867 Vacant Francis Joseph I
1867–1869 Béla Szende Francis Joseph I
1869–1871 Vacant Francis Joseph I
1871–1878 Péter Atzél Francis Joseph I resigned
1879–1886 Károly Tabajdi Francis Joseph I died in office
1886– László Fábián Francis Joseph I
1899–1905 Iván Urbán Francis Joseph I first term; resigned
1906–1910 Gyula Károlyi Francis Joseph I later prime minister (1931–1932)
1910–1915 Iván Urbán Francis Joseph I second term; died in office
1915–1917 Ferenc Baross Francis Joseph I
Charles IV
died in office
1917 Béla Barabás Charles IV
1918– Lajos Varjassy

Clickable map of the Arad County, 1782–85

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Notes

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References

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  7. 7,0 7,1 7,2 7,3 7,4 7,5 7,6 7,7 Engel 1996, p. 98.
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