Hajdú County

Hajdú, formerly known as Hajdúság, was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The capital of the county was Debrecen. The territory of the county is now part of the Hungarian county Hajdú-Bihar.

Hajdú County Comitatus Hajdonicalis (Latin) Hajdú vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Heiduck (German)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary (1876-1946) County of the Second Hungarian Republic (1946-1949) County of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949-1950)
Coat of arms
Capital	Debrecen
Area
• Coordinates	47°32′N 21°38′E
• 1910	3,343 km2 (1,291 sq mi)
Population
• 1910	253,863
History
• Established	1876
• Merged into Hajdú-Bihar County	16 March 1950
Today part of	Hungary

Geography

Hajdú county shared borders with the counties Heves, Borsod, Szabolcs, Bihar, Békés and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok. The river Tisza touched its western border. The Hortobágy National Park steppe lies in the county. Its area was 3343 km² around 1910.

History

The Hajdúság region had a special status in the Kingdom of Hungary, but was turned into the proper county Hajdú in the 19th century. At the 1950 county reform, it was merged with Bihar County (the Hungarian part of pre-Trianon Bihar County) and some smaller parts of the former Szabolcs County to form Hajdú-Bihar County, with its capital at Debrecen.^[1]

Demographics

Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).

Population by mother tongue^[a]

Census	Total	Hungarian	German	Other or unknown
1880[2]	173,329	164,320 (97.75%)	2,788 (1.66%)	998 (0.59%)
1890[3]	190,978	189,193 (99.07%)	1,132 (0.59%)	653 (0.34%)
1900[4]	223,612	221,798 (99.19%)	972 (0.43%)	842 (0.38%)
1910[5]	253,863	251,918 (99.23%)	1,044 (0.41%)	901 (0.35%)

Population by religion^[b]

Census	Total	Calvinist	Roman Catholic	Greek Catholic	Jewish	Other or unknown
1880	173,329	135,744 (78.32%)	18,014 (10.39%)	9,986 (5.76%)	8,444 (4.87%)	1,141 (0.66%)
1890	190,978	147,141 (77.05%)	21,795 (11.41%)	10,999 (5.76%)	9,749 (5.10%)	1,294 (0.68%)
1900	223,612	166,063 (74.26%)	29,549 (13.21%)	13,509 (6.04%)	12,806 (5.73%)	1,685 (0.75%)
1910	253,863	185,648 (73.13%)	35,059 (13.81%)	15,336 (6.04%)	15,301 (6.03%)	2,519 (0.99%)

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Hajdú county were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Hajdúböszörmény	Hajdúböszörmény
Hajdúszoboszló	Hajdúszoboszló
Központ	Debrecen
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Debrecen
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Hajdúböszörmény
Hajdúnánás
Hajdúszoboszló

Notes

1. Only linguistic communities > 1% are displayed.
2. Only religious communities > 1% are displayed.