Metadata: Crasna county. Contemporary registers of evidence of records
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Româna, Direcţia judeţeană Sălaj
- Postal address:
- Tudor Vladimirescu Str. No. 26A, Zalău 450067, judeţul Sălaj, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-260-611016
- Email:
- salaj@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 1
- Title:
- Crasna county. Contemporary registers of evidence of records
- Title (official language):
- Comitatul Crasna. Registre de evidenţă contemporane
- Creator/accumulator:
- Crasna county
- Date(s):
- 1614/1876
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 784 registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains registers of records issued by county authorities from 1614 to 1876. Documents refer to the administration of the county, the activity of the local courts, military issues (especially from the period of the Napoleonic wars), the fiscal system introduced by the Austrian reforms, the regulation of relations between landlords and serfs, trade and agriculture, epidemics and health institutions. Jewish material includes petitions, grievances, passport applications and legal cases involving Jews.
- Archival history:
- The registers were preserved by the Cluj and Zalău branch of the State Archives and are now in the custody of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County, where they have been inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Crasna County was part of the ancient county of Solnoc, mentioned since the 12th century, and was included later in a larger unit named Partium. In the 16th century it had two towns and 100 rural localities. In the 18th century it appears as a separate county with two towns and 69 localities, divided between two districts. For some years during the reign of Emperor Joseph II (1780–90), it was merged with Middle Szolnok County and the district of Chioar, and was then a distinct administrative entity again from 1790–1848. After the 1848 revolution, the former counties were dissolved, but they were re-established in 1861 and lasted until a new law included the former Crasna County in Sălaj County, where it remained until the communist reforms of 1950.
- Access points: locations:
- Crasna
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Passports and visas
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into thematic sections, within which the records are organised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 501 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2016
