Kis-Küküllő

Kis-Küküllő is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in central Romania (central Transylvania). Kis-Küküllő is the Hungarian name for the Târnava Mică River. The capital of the county was Dicsőszentmárton (now Târnăveni).

[edit] Geography

Kis-Küküllő county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Alsó-Fehér, Torda-Aranyos, Maros-Torda, Udvarhely and Nagy-Küküllő. The Mureş River/Maros formed part of its northern border, the Târnava Mare River/Nagy-Küküllő its southern border. The Târnava Mică River/Kis-Küküllő flows through the county. Its area was 1724 km² around 1910.

Kis-Küküllő county was formed when the county Küküllő was split in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian counties Mureş (a.o. Târnăveni), Alba (the south-west) and Sibiu (the south, a.o. Dumbrăveni).

In 1910, county had a population of 116,091 people. Population by language:

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Kis-Küküllő county were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Dicsőszentmárton	Dicsőszentmárton, RO Târnăveni
Erzsébetváros	Erzsébetváros, RO Dumbrăveni
Hosszúaszó	Hosszúaszó, RO Valea Lungă
Radnót	Radnót, RO Iernut
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Dicsőszentmárton, RO Târnăveni
Erzsébetváros, RO Dumbrăveni

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Comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary (1886)