Industrializare şi dezvoltare regională în Valea Jiului în perioada 1867-1918
Industrialization and Regional Development in the Jiu Valley during 1867-1918

Summary/Abstract: Situated in the South-Eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in Transylvania the western-type industrialization process begun only at the 2nd half of the 19th century. After the construction of the railways that connected the Jiu Valley with the market of the double monarchy, the mining industry attracted the most important amount of capital invested in the region. The rich coal fields of the valley were discovered before the 1848th revolution, but the industrial type exploitation begun only after the construction of the railway. The real take off happened in the 1880th. The most important entrepreneurs of the valley became the Salgótarján Coal Mining Company, the Uricani-Valea Jiului Hungarian Coal Mining Company, the Upper Jiu Valley Coal Mining Society and the Royal Hungarian Coal and Graphite Mining Company. As a direct result of the investment in the production equipment and infrastructure, at the beginning of the 20th century the Jiu Valley became the second most important coalfield of the Hungarian half of the double monarchy. As the result of the colonization the population of the region increased from 12 671 in 1869 to 50 015 in 1910.

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