Maros-Torda was an administrative county (

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) of the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

. Its territory is now in central

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

(eastern

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) and has been administratively succeeded by county Mureș which consist of about half the territory of the previous Maros-Torda administrative county. Its county seat was Marosvásárhely (present-day

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; ; German language, German: ''Neumarkt am Mieresch'') is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the list of cities and towns in Romania, 16th-largest city in Romania, with 116,033 ...

Geography

Maros-Torda county shared borders with the Hungarian counties

Kolozs Kolozs County was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary, of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and of the Principality of Transylvania. Its territory is now in north-western Romania (north-western Transylvania). The capita ...

, Beszterce-Naszód, Csík, Udvarhely, Kis-Küküllő and

Torda-Aranyos Torda-Aranyos was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (central Transylvania). The capital of the county was Torda (present-day Turda). Geography Torda-Aranyos county shared b ...

. The river Mureș flowed through the county. Its area was 4,188 km² around 1910.

History

Maros-Torda county was formed in 1876 on the territory of the Székely

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Marosszék Marosszék () was one of the seats in the historical Székely Land. It was named after the Maros, a river with the biggest discharge in the seat. The composer Zoltán Kodály wrote the '' Dances of Marosszék'' (1927, for piano, later orchestrated ...

and part of

Torda County Torda County (,Fallenbüchl 1994, p. 153. , ) was a county in Transylvania between the 11th century and 1876. History Kingdom of Hungary Counties (districts formed around royal fortresses) were the basic units of royal administration in the Kingd ...

. In 1920, after the

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, the county became part of Romania, except after the

Second Vienna Award The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes that were arbitrated by Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy. On 30 August 1940, they assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Cri ...

, between 1940 until the end of

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, when much of the county's territory was awarded to Hungary. Today, its territory lies in the present (larger) Romanian county Mureș.

Demographics

Subdivisions

Around 1910, the subdivisions of Maros-Torda county were:

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