Cornel Coposu was born in Bobota, Sălaj County (in Transylvania, part of Austria-Hungary at the time) to the Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Valentin Coposu (17 November 1886 - 28 July 1941) and his wife Aurelia Coposu (née Anceanu, herself the daughter of Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Iuliu Anceanu).
On 22 March 1896, Ady Endre published his first poem in the Zalău newspaper Szilágy.
Szolnok-Doboka county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Szilágy, Szatmár, Máramaros, Beszterce-Naszód and Kolozs.