Crişana

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Crişana region within Romania

Crişana (Hungarian: Körösvidék, German: Kreischgebiet) is a historical region of Romania and Hungary, named after the three tributaries of the Criş River (Hun: Körös) that flow through it: the Crişul Alb (Hun: Fehér-Körös), Crişul Negru (Hun: Fekete-Körös) and Crişul Repede (Hun: Sebes-Körös). It is bounded in Romania by the Maramureş to the north, Transylvania-proper to the east, Banat to the south, and the Hungarian Great Alföld to the west. The region consists of current Romanian counties of Arad (most of it), Bihor and some parts of the Sălaj, Satu Mare and Hunedoara counties.

Before the disintegration of the Austrian-Hungarian Kingdom in 1918 Crişana was part of the historical region Partium.

Crişana is also a local newspaper in Oradea, Romania.

Historical regions in Romania

Banat (1918–)^a • Dobruja (Northern Dobruja (1878–)• Southern Dobruja (1913–40) • Moldavia (1866–) (Bessarabia (1918–40; 1941–44)^b • Bukovina^c • Hertza (1866–1940; 1941–44)) • Transylvania (1918–)^a^d (Crişana • Maramureş) • Wallachia (1866-) (Muntenia • Oltenia)
^aDe jure since 1920. ^bCahul, Ismail and Bolgrad in Romania, 1866–78. ^cSouthern Bukovina in Romania 1918–; Northern Bukovina, 1918–40; ^dNorthern Transylvania in Hungary, 1940–44.

Regions that belonged to Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon (1920)

Countries of the
Holy Crown

Hungary proper	Burgenland / Őrvidék (Austria) · Carpathian Ruthenia / Zakarpattia Oblast / Kárpátalja (Ukraine) · Međimurje / Muraköz (Croatia) · Prekmurje / Muravidék (Slovenia) · Transylvania / Erdély; Crişana / Partium; Maramureş / Máramaros; Szeklerland / Székelyföld (Romania) · Upper Hungary / Felvidék / present-day Slovakia (Slovakia) · Bačka / Bácska (Serbia) · Banat / Bánát (Romania, Serbia) · Baranja / Baranya (Croatia)

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia	Croatia / Horvátország (Croatia) · Slavonia / Szlavónia (Croatia) · Syrmia / Szerémség (Serbia, Croatia)

Corpus separatum	Rijeka / Fiume (Croatia)

joint Austrian-Hungarian administration	Bosnia and Herzegovina / Bosznia-Hercegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina)