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CENSUS INFORMATION

 

TRANSYLVANIA
1722 fiscal conscription (nobility exempted) nominal!?
1733 religious conscription
1750 fiscal conscription, (nobility exempted) nominal?; religious conscription
1762 religious conscription
1785 first modern, reliable, nominal census, some of the original forms were destroyed in 1790
1828 land census (nominal)
1850 census
1857 census, law passed: census to be made every 6 years
Censuses before 1867 are kept in Romanian archives; census data post 1880 at the archives in Budapest
1875 civil registration transffered to laic authority - town halls
1880 censuses every 10 years
Census data post 1880 in Transylvania is held by the archives in Budapest.
POPULATION OF TRANSYLVANIA
1722 1.000.000 (only Central Transylvania)
1760 67% romanians, 22% magyars,.12% germans
1785 2.490.000 including Banat, Crisana, Maramures (Central Transylvania only - 1.670.000)
1850 2.073.733 (Central Transylvania only)
1857 2.172.748
1880 2.305.040
1890 2.500.033
1900 2.729.714

 

 

 

 


WALLACHIA & MOLDOVA
  1831 Plague merged with cholera (site ref ). Numbers dead ???
1831 May: Wallachia starts civil registration (returns to parish churches);
1832 January: Moldavia starts civil registration (returns to parish churches);
1838 First fiscal census, nominal
1859 1st national census taken (uncertain as to whereabouts of the returns), national population now: ???
  1860 - 3: Romanian language changed from Cyrillic to Latin based characters;
  1865: Plague of cholera (numbers dead ???);
1864 Census of jewish inkeepers and excisers living in villages
1865 December: Civil registration returns now sent to the town halls;
  1871 Cholera plague (number dead ???);
1899 Second census of Romania, national population now ???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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