Fogaras County

"Fogaras" redirects here. For the Romanian city with this name in Hungarian, see Făgăraș.

Fogaras was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The county's capital was Fogaras (present-day Făgăraș).

Fogaras County Comitatus Fogarasensis (Latin) Fogaras vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Fogarasch (German) Comitatul Făgăraș (Romanian)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
1876–1920
Coat of arms
Capital	Fogaras
Area
• Coordinates	45°51′N 24°58′E
• 1910	2,433 km2 (939 sq mi)
Population
• 1910	95,174
History
• Established	1876
• Treaty of Trianon	4 June 1920
Today part of	Romania
Făgăraș is the current name of the capital.

Geography

Map of Fogaras, 1891.

Fogaras county shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Szeben, Nagy-Küküllő and Brassó. The river Olt formed most of its northern border. The ridge of the southern Carpathian Mountains forms its southern border. Its area was 2,433 km² (939 sq mi) around 1910.

History

The Fogaras region was an administrative territorial entity of the Kingdom of Hungary since the 15th century. Fogaras county 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; Făgăraș County was created, with an identical territory. The territory lies in the present Romanian counties Brașov and Sibiu (the westernmost part).

Demographics

Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description)

Population by mother tongue

Census	Total	Romanian	Hungarian	German	Other or unknown
1880	84,571	75,050 (90.92%)	2,694 (3.26%)	3,850 (4.66%)	948 (1.15%)
1890	88,217	78,725 (89.24%)	4,082 (4.63%)	4,009 (4.54%)	1,401 (1.59%)
1900	92,801	83,445 (89.92%)	5,159 (5.56%)	3,627 (3.91%)	570 (0.61%)
1910	95,174	84,436 (88.72%)	6,466 (6.79%)	3,236 (3.40%)	1,036 (1.09%)

Population by religion

Census	Total	Eastern Orthodox	Greek Catholic	Roman Catholic	Lutheran	Calvinist	Jewish	Other or unknown
1880	84,571	54,900 (64.92%)	22,787 (26.94%)	2,194 (2.59%)	2,449 (2.90%)	1,335 (1.58%)	675 (0.80%)	231 (0.27%)
1890	88,217	56,943 (64.55%)	23,142 (26.23%)	2,466 (2.80%)	2,625 (2.98%)	1,801 (2.04%)	866 (0.98%)	374 (0.42%)
1900	92,801	60,220 (64.89%)	23,850 (25.70%)	2,454 (2.64%)	2,737 (2.95%)	2,225 (2.40%)	873 (0.94%)	442 (0.48%)
1910	95,174	61,881 (65.02%)	23,651 (24.85%)	3,024 (3.18%)	2,768 (2.91%)	2,441 (2.56%)	905 (0.95%)	504 (0.53%)

Subdivisions

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

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Alsóárpás	Alsóárpás (now Arpașu de Jos)
Fogaras	Fogaras (now Făgăraș)
Sárkány	Sárkány (now Șercaia)
Törcsvár	Zernest (now Zărnești)
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Fogaras (now Făgăraș)