Krassó-Szörény County
county of the Kingdom of Hungary
Krassó-Szörény (Hungarian: Krassó-Szörény, Romanian: Caraș-Severin, Serbian: Karaš-Severin or Караш-Северин) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now mostly located in western Romania, with one very small part which is located in Serbia. The capital of the county was Lugos (present-day Lugoj).
Geography
Krassó-Szörény County was located in the Banat region. It shared borders with the Kingdom of Serbia and the Hungarian counties of Temes, Arad and Hunyad. The river Danube formed its southern border, and the river Mureș its northern border. The rivers Bega, Timiș, Bârzava, Caraș, Nera and Cerna flowed through the county. Its area was 11,032 km2 (4,259 sq mi) around 1910.
History
Krassó-Szörény county was formed in 1881 by uniting the counties of Krassó (its center was Lugos/Lugoj) and Szörény (its center was Karánsebes/Caransebeș). Previously, Krassó County had been re-established in 1779, with significantly different borders than in medieval times, while Szörény County had only been established in 1873 (it was the shortest-lived county in the modern Kingdom of Hungary), mostly on the territory of the former Vlach Regiment of the Banat Military Frontier.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Krassó-Szörény County” as county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q643460. Authority coordinates are 45.683, 21.900. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1881, 1779 and 1873.
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