Arad County (former)

Arad County
Comitatus Aradiensis (Latin)
Arad vármegye (Hungarian)
Komitat Arad (German)
Comitatul Arad (Romanian)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(~1200-1526)
County of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
(1526–1552)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1741–1923)

CapitalArad;
Elek (1920–1923)
Area
 • Coordinates46°11′N 21°19′E / 46.183°N 21.317°E / 46.183; 21.317
 
• 1910
6,048 km2 (2,335 sq mi)
• 1920
270 km2 (100 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
414,388
• 1920
21,720
History 
• Established
11th century
• Ottoman conquest
1552
• County recreated
1741
4 June 1920
• Merged into Csanád-Arad-Torontál County
1923
Today part ofRomania
(5,778 km2)
Hungary
(270 km2)

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.


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