page_title: Maros-Torda County
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Maros-Torda County / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethnic map of the county (with data of the 1910 census). Key: red - Hungarians; dark green - Romanians; pink - Germans; black - Roma. Coloured dots in plain rectangles imply the presence of smaller minority populations (generally more than 100 people or 10%). Multicoloured rectangles imply cities and villages with multi-ethnic populations with the order of the stripes following the ethnic composition of the settlement.
context_page_description: Maros-Torda was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania 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.
context_section_description: In 1900, the county had a population of 197,618 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
  Total:
  Hungarian: 119,810 (60.6%)
  Romanian: 67,402 (34.1%)
  German: 7,446 (3.8%)
  Croatian: 107 (0.0%)
  Slovak: 85 (0.0%)
  Ruthenian: 9 (0.0%)
  Serbian: 4 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 2,755 (1.4%)
  According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:
  Total:
  Calvinist: 78,907 (39.9%)
  Greek Catholic: 44,507 (22.5%)
  Eastern Orthodox: 28,989 (14.7%)
  Roman Catholic: 26,046 (13.2%)
  Unitarian: 7,917 (4.0%)
  Lutheran: 6,205 (3.1%)
  Jewish: 5,000 (2.5%)
  Other or unknown: 47 (0.0%)
  In 1910, county had a population of 219,589 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
  Total:
  Hungarian: 134,166 (61.1%)
  Romanian: 71,909 (32.8%)
  German: 8,312 (3.8%)
  Ruthenian: 174 (0.0%)
  Slovak: 79 (0.0%)
  Croatian: 33 (0.0%)
  Serbian: 25 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 4,891 (2.2%)
  According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:
  Total:
  Calvinist: 85,692 (39.0%)
  Greek Catholic: 49,911 (22.7%)
  Eastern Orthodox: 31,266 (14.2%)
  Roman Catholic: 30,828 (14.0%)
  Unitarianist: 7,894 (3.6%)
  Jewish: 7,550 (3.4%)
  Lutheran: 6,442 (2.9%)
  Other or unknown: 6 (0.0%)
caption: Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description)
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