Maros-Torda County

Maros-Torda County
Comitatus Marosiensis et Tordensis (Latin)
Maros-Torda vármegye (Hungarian)
Komitat Mieresch-Thorenburg (German)
Comitatul Mureş-Turda (Romanian)
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
(1876-1920, 1940-1945)
Coat of arms

CapitalMarosvásárhely
Area
 • Coordinates46°33′N 24°34′E / 46.550°N 24.567°E / 46.550; 24.567
 
• 1910
4,203 km2 (1,623 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
219,589
History 
• Established
1876
• Treaty of Trianon
4 June 1920
• County recreated (Second Vienna Award)
30 August 1940
• Disestablished
1945
Today part ofRomania
Târgu Mureș is the current name of the capital.

Maros-Torda was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (eastern Transylvania) and has been administratively succeeded by county Mureș which consist of about half the territory of the previous Maros-Torda administrative county. Its county seat was Marosvásárhely (present-day Târgu Mureș).

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