Szilágy County
| Szilágy County Comitatus Silagiensis (Latin) Szilágy vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Szilagy (German) Comitatul Sălaj (Romanian) |
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| County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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| Capital |
Zilah 47°11′N 23°3′E / 47.183°N 23.050°ECoordinates: 47°11′N 23°3′E / 47.183°N 23.050°E |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 1876 | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | 4 June 1920 | |||
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| • | 1910 | 3,815 km2(1,473 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 230,100 | |||
| Density | 60.3 /km2 (156.2 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of | Romania | ||||
| Zalău is the current name of the capital. | |||||
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Szilágy (Romanian: Sălaj) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in north-western Romania. The capital of the county was Zilah (present-day Zalău in Romania).
Szilágy county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Bihar, Szatmár, Szolnok-Doboka and Kolozs. The rivers Szamos and Kraszna flow through the county. Its territory is for a large part the same as that of the present Romanian county Sălaj. Its area was 3815 km² around 1910.
Szilágy county was formed in 1876, when the counties of Kraszna (Its center was Valkóváralja at first, later Szilágysomlyó), Közép-Szolnok (Its center was Zilah) and the Egregy district of Doboka County were united.
In 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon the county became part of Romania. It was returned to Hungary by the Second Vienna Award in 1940 and after World War II it became the part again of Romania. Most of it is now part of the Romanian county Sălaj, except some areas in the north-west (now in Satu Mare county) and north-east (now in Maramureş county).
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