Count of Hermannstadt

The Count of Hermannstadt, also Count of Sibiu or Count of Szeben (Hungarian: szebeni ispán), was the head of the Transylvanian Saxons living in the wider region of Hermannstadt (now Sibiu in Romania) in the 13th and early 14th centuries. The counts were royal officials, appointed and dismissed by the Kings of Hungary.

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