Bihar County

Bihar County

For the current counties, see Bihor County and Hajdú-Bihar County. For the Indian State, see Bihar.

Bihar is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently mostly in northwestern Romania, where it is administered as Bihor County, and a smaller part in eastern Hungary. The capital of the county was Nagyvárad; the city now lies in Romania under the Romanian name of Oradea.

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