Bihar County

Bihar County
Bihar vármegye
Comitatul Bihor
Comitatus Bihariensis
Komitat Bihar
County of the Kingdom of Hungary (11th century-16th century, 1692-1920), county of Partium (16th century-17th century)
11th century-17th century
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Coat of arms

Bihar county between 1876 and 1920
Capital Nagyvárad
47°3′N 21°56′E / 47.050°N 21.933°E / 47.050; 21.933Coordinates: 47°3′N 21°56′E / 47.050°N 21.933°E / 47.050; 21.933
History
 • Established 11th century
 • Treaty of Trianon June 4, 1920
Area
 • 1910 10,657 km2 (4,115 sq mi)
Population
 • 1910 646,301 
Density 60.6 /km2  (157.1 /sq mi)
Today part of Romania, Hungary
Oradea is the current name of the capital.
For the current counties, see Bihor County and Hajdú-Bihar County. For the Indian State, see Bihar.

Bihar was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary and a county of Partium (in the 17th century, when it was under the rule of the Princes of Transylvania). Its territory is now mostly in northwestern Romania, where it is administered as Bihor County, and a smaller part in eastern Hungary. The capital of the county was Nagyvárad (now Oradea in Romania).

Geography

Bihar County was situated along the upper courses of the rivers Körös, Sebes-Körös, Fekete-Körös and Berettyó.[1] The medieval county also included Kalotaszeg region (now Țara Călatei in Romania).[2] The total territory of the medieval county was around 10,000 km2 (3,900 sq mi).[3]

After 1876, Bihar county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Békés, Hajdú, Szabolcs, Szatmár, Szilágy, Kolozs, Torda-Aranyos and Arad. The western half of the county is in the Pannonian plain, while the eastern half is part of the Apuseni mountains. Its area was 10,657 km2 (4,115 sq mi) around 1910.

History

Origins

The castle of Byhor, or Bihar (now Biharia in Romania), was the center of the duchy of Menumorut at the time of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in the 890s, according to the Gesta Hungarorum.[4][5] The Gesta – the only primary source which mentions Menumorut – describes him as a ruler "with Bulgarian heart" who was the vassal of the Byzantine Emperor.[6][5] Menumorut's subjects were Khazars, and the Székelys joined the invading Hungarians in his duchy.[5][7] Historian Tudor Sălăgean writes that other peoples (including Romanians) must have also lived in Menumorut's realm.[5] Menumorut was forced to give his daughter in marriage to Zoltán, son of Árpád, Grand Prince of the Hungarians.[8] When he died, his son-in-law inherited his duchy.[8][9] Modern scholars debate whether Menumorut and his duchy actually existed or the anonymous author of the Gesta invented them.[10] For instance, historian György Györffy says that Menumorut's name preserved the memory of the Moravians who dominated parts of the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century.[7] Menumorut's "Khazars" could have been Kabars who settled in the region after the Hungarian conquest, according to a scholarly theory.[11][12]

Place names of Slavic origin – for instance, Zomlyn (near modern Darvas in Hungary), Csatár and Szalacs (now Cetariu and Sălacea in Romania) – show that Slav communities lived along the rivers Ér and Berettyó and around Bihar.[13] Graves of 10th-century warriors, buried together with parts of their horses, have been excavated, for instance, at Bihar, Hajdúböszörmény, and Nagyszalonta (now Salonta in Romania).[14][15] According to archaeologist Thomas Nägler, the small number of graves which can be attributed to 10th-century Hungarian warriors shows that few Hungarians settled in the region after the Hungarian conquest.[16] Archaeologist Erwin Gáll writes that the cemetery at Bihar may represent a "peripheral centre" of a core region which was located along the upper courses of the river Tisza, because the burial customs were similar in the two territories.[17] Almost a dozen medieval villages – for instance, Felkér, Köröskisjenő and Köröstarján (now Felcheriu, Ineu and Tărian in Romania) – bore the name of a Hungarian tribe, suggesting that Hungarian groups settled in the region in the late 10th and early 11th centuries, according to György Györffy.[18]

Written sources and toponyms implies the presence of Székelys.[11] The castle folk of Ebey – a village, located near Nagyszalonta, which was later abandoned – were grouped into a "hundred", or centurionatus, named Székelyszáz around 1217.[19][20] The Seat of Telegd was most probably named after the village Telegd (now Tileagd in Romania). If this scholarly theory is valid, the ancestors of the Székelys of Telegd had lived in Bihar County before they moved to eastern Transylvania.[21][22] Historian Florin Curta writes that the Székelys settled in the county only in the early 13th century.[23]

Modern historians agree that the county was established between 1020 and 1050, most probably by Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, or possibly by his successor, Peter.[21][24] According to a version of a royal charter, issued in 1203, mentioned that "the whole Bihar County" was located partly around Bihar and partly around Zaránd (now Zărand in Romania), suggesting that Bihar County had originally included Zaránd County, or at least its territories north of the river Fehér-Körös.[25][26] An other version of the same charter also mentioned Békés besides Bihar and Zaránd, implying that Bihar County had also included the lands which developed into the separate Békés County.[26][27]

Middle Ages

A coffin surrounded by bishops and other people
Anjou Legendarium: 1. The burial of King St Ladislaus in Várad Cathedral 2. People pray at his tomb 3. A rich man cannot lift a silver tray from his tomb 4. A poor man lifts the silver tray

The 11th-century Bihar Castle, made of earth and timber, was the first center of the county.[28][29] The earliest royal charter that mentioned the ispán, or head, of the county was issued around 1067.[24] The county was included in the ducatus, or duchy, that Andrew I of Hungary granted to his younger brother, Béla, around 1050.[30] Béla's son, Géza, ruled the duchy from 1064.[31] Nomadic Turks – Pechenegs or Ouzes – plundered the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Hungary, including the region around Bihar Castle in 1068.[9][32][33] Duke Géza, his brother, Ladislaus, and their cousin, King Solomon of Hungary, joined their forces and chased the marauders as far as Doboka (now Dăbâca in Romania).[32][33] Six years later, "the troops from Byhor" were under the command of Duke Ladislaus in the Battle of Mogyoród which ended with the decisive victory of Géza and Ladislaus over King Solomon.[24][34] The first document that mentioned the county was issued in 1075.[24][35]

According to György Györffy, the county seems to have originally been included in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Eger, because the Deanery of Zsomboly, located to the south of Bihar County, formed an exclave of the Eger bishopric during the Middle Ages.[36] The separate Roman Catholic Diocese of Bihar was set up between 1020 and 1061.[24][37][34] Its see was transferred to Várad (now Oradea in Romania) before 1095.[34] There were four deaneries in the county; the Deanery of Bihar was the first to have been documented (in 1213).[38] Pilgrims frequented the shrine of King St Ladislaus in the Várad Cathedral after his canonization in 1192 and trials by ordeal were also held there.[39]

Emeric, King of Hungary approached Pope Innocent III, asking him to make "Latins" abbot of the Greek monasteries in the Kingdom of Hungary to restore discipline.[40] In a letter, written on 16 May 1204, the pope ordered the Catholic Bishop of Várad to visit the "Greek" monasteries and to set up a separate diocese, directly subjected to the Holy See, for them.[41] According to historian Ioan-Aurel Pop, those "Greek" monasteries actually belonged to the local Orthodox Romanians'.[41] Pop also writes that the Orthodox bishopric "in the country of Knez Bela", mentioned in a letter that Pope Innocent wrote to the Archbishop of Kalocsa in 1205, was located north of Oradea.[42]

At least 19 villages – including Köröskisjenő, Mezőgyán and Mezősas in Bihar County, and Gyulavarsánd and Vadász (now Vărșand and Vânători) in Zaránd County – made up the honour of Bihar Castle in the early 13th century.[43] The Várad Register – a codex which preserved the minutes of hundreds of ordeals held at the Várad Chapter between 1208 and 1235[44] – provides information of the life of the commoners in the honour.[45] The castle folk who were divided in "hundreds" provided well-specified services to the ispán.[45] The Register mentioned the gatekeepers and the hunters of Bihar Castle.[45] The Register also referred to "guest settlers" of foreign – Rus', German or "Latin" – origin.[46][47] For instance, Walloon "guests" established Olaszi near Várad (now Olasig neighborhood in Oradea) before 1215.[48]

The kings started to give away parcels of the royal domain already in the 11th century.[36] Prelates and ecclesiastic institutions – including the bishops of Várad, the Dömös Chapter and the Garamszentbenedek Abbey – were the first beneficiaries.[36] According to György Györffy, the noble Ákos, Borsa, Gutkeled and Hont-Pázmány clans received their first estates in the county in the 11th century; the Geregyes, the Telegdis and most other lords only in the late 13th century.[49] The western and southwestern lowlands were distributed among dozens of noble families, each holding only one village.[50]

The Mongols captured and destroyed Várad during their invasion of Hungary in 1241, according to Roger of Torre Maggiore, who was archdeacon of the Várad Chapter at that time.[51][52][53] At least 18% of the nearly 170 settlements documented in the county before 1241 disappeared during the Mongol invasion.[53] Stephen V of Hungary exempted the peasants living in the estates of the bishop of Várad of royal taxation and granted the bishop the right to open mines in his estates in 1263 to promote the economic recovery of the bishopric.[54] A silver mine was in short opened at the bishop's domains at Belényes (now Beiuș in Romania).[55]

New fortresses were built during the decades following the withdrawal of the Mongols.[53] Judge royal Paul Geregye erected Sólyomkő Castle at Élesd (now Aleșd in Romania); his sons held further 2 newly built fortresses in the 1270s.[56] Their power was crushed during King Ladislaus the Cuman's reign; he granted their fortresses and domains to the Borsas.[55] James Borsa, one of the semi-independent "oligarchs", was the actual ruler of Bihar, Kraszna, Szabolcs, Szatmár and Szolnok counties in the early 14th century.[55] After James Borsa's fall in the late 1310s, the noble Czibak, Debreceni and Telegdi families became the wealthiest lay landowners in the county.[55] The center of the Debrecenis' ancestral estates, Debrecen, developed into a market town.[57]

One of the earliest references to the presence of Romanians in the county – the place name Olahteluk ("Vlachs' Plot") – was recorded in a non-authentic charter, dated to 1283.[58] The first authentic document mentioning Romanians was issued in 1293.[53] They lived in the region of the bishop's castle at Várasfenes (now Finiș in Romania).[59] Next a charter of 1326 referred to the Romanian Voivode Neagul who "settled and lived" (considet and commoratur) in Nicholas Telegdi's estate at Kaptalanhodos (now Hodiş in Romania).[60] Historian Ioan Aurel Pop writes that the latter charter proves that Nicholas Telegdi's estate had originally owned by Voivode Neagul.[61]

Modern Times

Multicolored map, depicting rivers
Bihar County as a part Principality of Transylvania, 1606–1660
Bihar County (light green, in the western part of the territory) as a part of the Principality of Transylvania during Gabriel Bethlen's rule

It was ruled by Ottoman Empire as Varat Eyalet between 1660–1692.

In 1876 the Kingdom of Hungary was divided into seven Circles, with a total of 64 counties[62] The Circle on the left bank of the Theiss contained eight counties, including Bihar Megye (Megye means county), with the other seven being Békés, Hajdú, Máramaros, Szabolcs, Szatmár, Szilágy and Ugocsa. Bihar county in the Austro-Hungarian Empire contained Debrecen and Nagyvárad.

In 1918/19 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), about 75% of the county became part of Romania. The west of the county remained in Hungary. The capital of this smaller county Bihar was Berettyóújfalu.

After World War II, the Hungarian county Bihar was merged with Hajdú County to form Hajdú-Bihar county. The southernmost part of Hungarian Bihar (the area around Sarkad and Okány) went to Békés County.

The Romanian part of former Bihar County now forms the Romanian Bihor County, except the southernmost part (around Beliu), which is in Arad County. This part was occupied by Hungary between 1940–1944 during World War II.

List of ispáns

See also: Ispán

Eleventh and twelfth centuries

Term Incumbent Monarch Notes Source
c. 1067 Stephen Solomon the county was part of the duchy of King Solomon's cousin, Géza [63][31]
c. 1111 – c. 1113 Saul Coloman [63]
c. 1135 Bucan Béla II also judge royal; he is only mentioned in a non-authentic diploma [63]
c. 1138 Ákos Béla II [63]
c. 1166 John Stephen III [63]
c. 1181 – c. 1183 Esau Béla he was almost surely identical either with Palatine Esau or with Judge royal Esau who held their offices between 1197 and 1198 [64]
c. 1192 – c. 1193 Both Béla [65]
c. 1197 Peter Emeric he may have been identical with Peter, son of Töre, who killed Queen Gertrude in 1213, according to historian Attila Zsoldos [66]
c. 1198 – c. 1199 Mika Ják Emeric also Master of the treasury (1198) and judge royal (1199) [65]
c. 1199 Nicholas Emeric [66]

Thirteenth century

Term Incumbent Monarch Notes Source
c. 1200 – c. 1201 Mika Ják Emeric second rule; also palatine (1199) [65]
c. 1202 – c. 1203 Benedict Emeric also palatine (1202-1204) [65]
c. 1205 – c. 1206 Gyrco Andrew II [65]
c. 1206 – c. 1207 Mog Andrew II also palatine (1206) [65]
c. 1207 Nicholas Andrew II [67]
c. 1208 Marcel Tétény Andrew II [67]
c. 1208 Smaragd Andrew II [68]
c. 1209 Michael Kacsics Andrew II [69]
c. 1209 Nicholas Andrew II second rule [67]
1209 – 1212 Bánk Bár-Kalán Andrew II also count of the Queen's court [70]
1212 – 1216 Mika Andrew II [70]
1216 – 1217 Neuka Andrew II [70]
1219 – 1221 Mika Andrew II second rule [70]
1222 Buzád Hahót Andrew II [70]
1222 Elias Andrew II [70]
1222 Julius Rátót Andrew II [70]
1223 – 1224 Pós Andrew II [70]
1224 Theodore Csanád Andrew II [70]
1226 Mika Andrew II [70]
1228 Nicholas Csák Andrew II [70]
1229 – 1230 Mojs Andrew II also palatine (1228-1231) [70]
1233 – 1235 Stephen Andrew II also master of the cupbearers (1235) [71]
1236 Denis Tomaj Béla IV [71]
1236 – 1238 Lawrence Béla IV [71]
1240 Dominic Rátót Béla IV master of the treasury [71]
1264 Mojs, son of Mojs Béla IV also ispán of Somogy County [71]
1272 Lawrence, son of Lawrence Stephen V [71]
1291 Benedict Andrew III also bishop of Várad (1287-1296) [71]
c. 1299 Paul Balogsemjén Andrew III also ispán of Kraszna and Szatmár Counties [71]

Fourteenth century

Term Incumbent Monarch Notes Source
1302 – 1316 Beke Borsa also ispán of Szabolcs and Békés Counties [72]
1317 – 1318 Dózsa Debreceni Charles I also ispán of Szabolcs County [72]

Demographics

1900

In 1900, the county had a population of 577,312 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:[73]

Total:

According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:[74]

Total:

1910

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

In 1910, the county had a population of 646,301 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:[75]

Total:

According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:[76]

Total:

Districts

In the early 20th century, the districts (járás) and their capitals were:

Districts (járás)
District Capital
BélBél, RO Beliu
BelényesBelényes, RO Beiuş
BerettyóújfaluBerettyóújfalu
BiharkeresztesBiharkeresztes
CséffaCséffa, RO Cefa
DerecskeDerecske
ÉlesdÉlesd, RO Aleşd
ÉrmihályfalvaÉrmihályfalva, RO Valea lui Mihai
KözpontNagyvárad, RO Oradea
MagyarcsékeMagyarcséke, RO Ceica
MargittaMargitta, RO Marghita
NagyszalontaNagyszalonta, RO Salonta
SárrétBiharnagybajom
SzalárdSzalárd, RO Sălard
SzékelyhidSzékelyhid, RO Săcueni
TenkeTenke, RO Tinca
VaskohVaskoh, RO Vaşcău
Urban counties (törvényhatósági jogú város)
Nagyvárad, RO Oradea

The towns of Derecske, Berettyóújfalu, Biharnagybajom and Biharkeresztes are now in Hungary, while the other towns mentioned are in Romania.

Notes

  1. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 569.
  2. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 570.
  3. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 589.
  4. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 571, 601, 603.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Sălăgean 2005, p. 140.
  6. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 571.
  7. 1 2 Györffy 1987, p. 572.
  8. 1 2 Sălăgean 2005, p. 146.
  9. 1 2 Györffy 1987, p. 603.
  10. ↑ Bóna 1994, p. 112.
  11. 1 2 Györffy 1987, p. 573.
  12. ↑ Spinei 2003, p. 61.
  13. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 603, 606-607, 663.
  14. ↑ Gáll 2013, pp. 56-59, 372-374.
  15. ↑ Spinei 2003, p. 58.
  16. ↑ Nägler 2005, p. 210.
  17. ↑ Gáll 2013, pp. 917-918.
  18. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 573, 628, 631-632, 674.
  19. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 572, 614.
  20. ↑ Curta 2006, p. 401 (note 69).
  21. 1 2 Kordé 1994, p. 103.
  22. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 674-675.
  23. ↑ Curta 2006, p. 403.
  24. 1 2 3 4 5 Kristó 1988, p. 475.
  25. ↑ Kristó 1988, p. 474.
  26. 1 2 Györffy 1987, p. 574.
  27. ↑ Kristó 1988, p. 479.
  28. ↑ Gáll 2013, p. 51.
  29. ↑ Curta 2006, p. 351.
  30. ↑ Bóna 1994, p. 141.
  31. 1 2 Bóna 1994, pp. 141-142.
  32. 1 2 Spinei 2003, p. 130.
  33. 1 2 Curta 2006, p. 251.
  34. 1 2 3 Bóna 1994, p. 142.
  35. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 601.
  36. 1 2 3 Györffy 1987, p. 576.
  37. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 576, 603.
  38. ↑ Kristó 1988, pp. 476-477.
  39. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 685.
  40. ↑ Richard 1989, p. 61.
  41. 1 2 Pop 2013, p. 121.
  42. ↑ Pop 2013, pp. 121-122.
  43. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 574, 620-621, 628, 658.
  44. ↑ Curta 2006, p. 401.
  45. 1 2 3 Kristó 1988, p. 476.
  46. ↑ Curta 2006, p. 402.
  47. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 578 (note 59).
  48. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 648.
  49. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 576-577.
  50. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 577.
  51. ↑ Curta 2006, p. 410.
  52. ↑ Nägler 2005, p. 226.
  53. 1 2 3 4 Györffy 1987, p. 578.
  54. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 579, 685.
  55. 1 2 3 4 Györffy 1987, p. 579.
  56. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 579,592, 650.
  57. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 611.
  58. ↑ Györffy 1987, pp. 647-648.
  59. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 616.
  60. ↑ Györffy 1987, p. 625.
  61. ↑ Pop 2013, pp. 271-272.
  62. ↑ H. Wickham Steed, Walter Alison Phillips, and David Hannay , A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland, (London: Encyclopaedia Britannica Company) 1914. On-line.
  63. 1 2 3 4 5 Zsoldos 2011, p. 137.
  64. ↑ Zsoldos 2011, pp. 138, 300.
  65. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Zsoldos 2011, p. 138.
  66. 1 2 Zsoldos 2011, pp. 138, 343.
  67. 1 2 3 Zsoldos 2011, pp. 138, 333.
  68. ↑ Zsoldos 2011, pp. 138, 352.
  69. ↑ Zsoldos 2011, pp. 138, 329.
  70. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Zsoldos 2011, p. 139.
  71. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Zsoldos 2011, p. 140.
  72. 1 2 Engel 1996, p. 112.
  73. ↑ "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  74. ↑ "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  75. ↑ "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  76. ↑ "KlimoTheca :: Könyvtár". Kt.lib.pte.hu. Retrieved 2012-06-24.

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