Târnava-Mică County
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| Historic region | Transylvania | |
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| • Total | 1,645.82 km2 (635.45 sq mi) | |
| Population (1930) | ||
| • Total | 149,482 | |
Târnava-Mică County was a county (Romanian: județ) in the Kingdom of Romania, the successor to Kis-Küküllő County of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its capital was Diciosânmartin (now Târnăveni, in Mureș County).
Târnava-Mică County covered 1,646 km2 and was located in central part of Greater Romania, in Transylvania. Currently, the territory that comprised the greater part of Târnava-Mică County is now part of Sibiu County, Mureș County, and Alba County. In the interwar period, its borders were as follows: Turda County to the northwest, Mureș County to the northeast, Alba County to the west, Sibiu County and Târnava-Mare County to the south, and Odorhei County to the east. The counties were abolished in the administrative reform of September 6, 1950.
Administratively, Târnava-Mică County was made up of three cities – Diciosânmartin, Ibașfalău (Elisabetopol, Elisabethstadt, Erzsébetváros), and Blaj – and was divided into four parts (plăși, singular plasă): I. Plasa Blaj, II. Plasa Diciosânmartin, III. Plasa Dumbrăveni, and IV. Plasa Iernut.
Whilst still part of Austria-Hungary, in 1870, the population of Târnava-Mică County was 100,161. In 1891, the population of the county was 101,045, of which 49.1% were ethnic Romanians, 27.4% Hungarians, and 18.1% Germans.
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