Arad County (former)

Arad County
*Comitatus Aradiensis* (Latin)
*Arad vármegye* (Hungarian)
*Komitat Arad* (German)
*Comitatul Arad* (Romanian)
Arad County Comitatus Aradiensis (Latin); Arad vármegye (Hungarian); Komitat Arad (German); Comitatul Arad (Romanian)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary; (~1200-1526); County of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom; (1526–1552); County of the Kingdom of Hungary; (1741–1923)
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Capital	Arad;; Elek (1920–1923)
Area
• Coordinates	46°11′N 21°19′E
• 1910	6,048 km2 (2,335 sq mi)
• 1920	270 km2 (100 sq mi)
Population
• 1910	414,388
• 1920	21,720
History
• Established	11th century
• Ottoman conquest	1552
• County recreated	1741
• Treaty of Trianon	4 June 1920
• Merged into Csanád-Arad-Torontál County	1923
Today part of	Romania; (5,778 km2); Hungary; (270 km2)

Arad County was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Hungary, the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and the Principality of Transylvania. The county was established along the Maros (Mureș) river in the 11th or the 12th century, but its first head, or ispán, was only mentioned in 1214. Its territory is now part of Romania, except a small area (the town of Elek and the surrounding villages) which is part of Hungary. The capital of the county was Arad.

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