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Burzenland (Terra Barcensis) is a historical and ethnographic region on the border of the Eastern and Southern Carpathians, in the south-eastern part of Transylvania, in the geographical centre of Romania. Data series regarding the settlements of Burzenland coming from written documents and administrative sources have been summarized on maps. With the help of maps, the formation of the settlement system of this area and the changes in administration can be traced from the 1200s to 1876. During this period, the traditional system of counties-seats-regions operated in Transylvania. This spatial organization formed the spatial framework for social and economic processes for half a millennium, until the final abolition of the system. During the Habsburg Empire period, the administration was reorganized between 1784-1790 and 1850-1860. The level of districts comprising several counties, seats and regions was organized according to political and economic aspects. Territorial units that are heterogeneous in ethnic, denominational, social, often economic, and natural interests served the interests of the centralizing power. The present study describes the characteristics of the administrative system of the county-seat-region of Burzenland that has been operating for half a millennium. We summarized the geographical features of the Barcaság, the subsequent Brassó/Braşov region administration, in the period from 1200 to 1876. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author characterizes the structural change of the Hungarian settlement system by examining industrial and agricultural production, tertiary sector, infrastructure of intellectual life, concentration of population, infrastructure, settlement structure, land use and administrative structure. Following agglomerations (Budapest metropolitan area, the Sajó Valley, and the Balaton-side settlement corridor receiving the most tourists) and agglomerating areas (Győr, Pest area, Zagyva valley, settlement corridor between Szombathely and Kőszeg), the study presents urbanizing corridors and areas, settlement clusters, city pairs, 'urban triplets' and urban regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]