1850. ÉVI ERDÉLYI NÉPSZÁMLÁLÁS (1994)
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195. District Towns Ruraltowns Villages Praedium Total Gyulafehervar 5 16 671 14 706 Kolozsvar 7 12 604 17 640 Nagyszeben 9 23 426 16 474 Retteg - 4 383 6 393 Udvarhely 2 7 449 15 473 First and Second Roumanian Regiments - 2 53 - 55 Transylvania, total: 23 64 2,576 68 2,741 In the population census material used, the category of town includes - besides Beszterce, Brasso, Gyulafehervar, Kolozsvar, Marosvasarhely, Medgyes, Nagyszeben, Segesvar and Szaszszabolcs which had formerly figured as free royal towns - Abrudbanya, Des, Erzsebetvaros, Korosbanya, Nagyenyed, Szamosujvar, Szaszregen, Szaszvaros, Szilagysomlyo, Tasnad, Torda, Udvarhely, Vajdahunyad and Zilah which figured classified in the same way. On them the 10 towns with greatest population were: Brasso (25,100), Kolozsvar (19,346), Nagyszeben (16 ,268), Marosvasarhely (9,127), Segesvar (7 ,962), Torda (7 ,768), Gyulafehervar ( 6 ,078 ), Beszterce (5 ,574 ), Medgyes ( 5 ,337 ) and Szaszregen ( 4 ,771 ). 2 3 At the same time there were also some ruraltowns with similar population sizes: Gyergyoszentmiklos (5,448), Fogaras (4,771), Barcarozsnyo (4,114). Even more surprising is the relatively great population size of certain villages. This in Hosszufalu near Brasso, in Zagon, in Gyergyoalfalu and in Ditro, respectively, 8,219; 6,047; 4,217 and 3,988 persons were taken into the census while among the Roumanian villages Resinar and Szelistye figure with a population of 5,499 and 4,937, respectively and villages with a population over 3 ,000 were also not infrequent. At the same time there were great differences with regard to the urban character of the localities and smaller Saxon rural towns were in some cases closer by character to an urban area than certain localities with greater populations which represented only a loose mass of groups of scattered houses. The changes in the number of family heads between 1767 and 1850 can be studied by using the data of the 24 consriptions of the population which did not cover the nobility. Year of the conscription Number of families Conscription of 1767 258,359 Population census of 1786 289,123 Conscription of 1791 302,433 Conscription of 1807 344,384 Conscription of 1816 309,703 Conscription of 1821 301,164 Population census of 1850 493,188 Though changes in the concepts and the difference in determining the family framework (for exapmle, in 1850, the number of dwellings can be equated with the category of persons living on one bread in the 1786 census) must be taken into consideration, the population census solves the dilemma caused by the not easily explainable contradiction between the natural increase and the population size growing at equal paces as a result of inmi.grations on the one had and the decreasing number of the families, on the other. On the basis of this later figure the decrease in the sourcevolue of the conscriptions regarding the not noble population of the period after 1807, in evident. A growth of the same pace can be observed in the changes of the number of houses. Population Number of Number of census houses families persons per one house 1786 255 ,124 1.13 5. 65 1850 419 ,276 1,18 4.95 1857 452 ,875 4.80
