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Blăjel
Blăjel (german: Kleinblasendorf; hu, Balázstelke) is a Commune in Romania, commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Blăjel, Păucea (''Puschendorf''; ''Pócstelke''), and Romanești (''Kalibák''). The commune is located in the northern part of the county, from the county seat, Sibiu. It sits on the Transylvanian Plateau, on the border with Mureș County and close to the border with Alba County. Its neighbors are: the city of Târnăveni to the north, the city of Mediaș to the south, Dârlos commune to the east, and Bazna commune to the west. Blăjel is traversed by Roads in Romania, national road , which runs from Mediaș to Târnăveni and on to Iernut. At the 2011 census, 68.9% of inhabitants were Romanians, 18.1% Roma in Romania, Roma, 12.1% Hungarians, and 0.7% Germans. References Communes in Sibiu County Localities in Transylvania {{Sibiu-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibiu County
Sibiu County () is a county ( ro, județ) of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Its county seat ( ro, reședință de județ) is the namesake town of Sibiu (german: Hermannstadt). Name In Hungarian, it is known as ''Szeben megye'', and in German as ''Kreis Hermannstadt''. Under the Kingdom of Hungary, a county with an identical name ( Szeben County, ro, Comitatul Sibiu) was created in 1876. Demographics In 2011, Sibiu County had a population of 375,992 and the population density was . At the 2011 census the county has the following population indices: * Romanians – 91.25% (or 340,836) * Romani – 4.76% (or 17,901) * Hungarians – 2.89% (or 10,893) * Germans (Transylvanian Saxons) – 1.09% (or 4,117) * Other – 0.1% (or 640) Religion: * Romanian Orthodox – 90.9% * Greek Catholics – 2.3% * Reformed – 2.0% * Roman Catholics – 1.5% * Pentecostals – 1.1% * Baptists – 0.9% * Other – 1.3% Urbanisation – 5th most urbanised county ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commune In Romania
A commune (''comună'' in Romanian language, Romanian) is the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. There are 2,686 communes in Romania. The commune is the rural subdivision of a Counties of Romania, county. Urban areas, such as towns and cities within a county, are given the status of ''Cities in Romania, city'' or ''Municipality in Romania, municipality''. In principle, a commune can contain any size population, but in practice, when a commune becomes relatively urbanised and exceeds approximately 10,000 residents, it is usually granted city status. Although cities are on the same administrative level as communes, their local governments are structured in a way that gives them more power. Some urban or semi-urban areas of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants have also been given city status. Each commune is administered by a mayor (''primar'' in Romanian). A commune is made up of one or more villages which do not themselves have an administrative function. Communes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germans
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Hungarians
Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic language family. There are an estimated 15 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. About 2–3 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. Significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina. Hungarians can be divided into several subgroups according to local linguistic and cultural characteristics; subgroups with distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma In Romania
Romani people (Roma; Romi, traditionally '' Țigani'', (often called "Gypsies" though this term is considered a slur) constitute one of Romania's largest minorities. According to the 2011 census, their number was 621.573 people or 3.3% of the total population, being the second-largest ethnic minority in Romania after Hungarians. There are different estimates about the size of the total population of people with Romani ancestry in Romania, varying from 4.6 per cent to over 10 percent of the population, because many people of Romani descent do not declare themselves Romani. For example, the Council of Europe estimates that approximately 1.85 million Roma live in Romania, a figure equivalent to 8.32% of the population. Origins The Romani people originate from northern India, presumably from the northwestern Indian regions such as Rajasthan and Punjab. The linguistic evidence has indisputably shown that roots of Romani language lie in India: the language has grammatical characteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanians
The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Culture of Romania, Romanian culture and Cultural heritage, ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The Demographic history of Romania#20 October 2011 census, 2011 Romanian census found that just under 89% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians. In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians.''Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook By'' David Levinson (author), David Levinson, Published 1998 – Greenwood Publishing Group.At the time of the 1989 census, Moldova's total population was 4,335,400. The largest nationality in the republic, ethnic Romanians, numbered 2,795,000 persons, accounting for 64.5 percent of the population. Source U.S. Library of Congress "however it is one interpreta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iernut
Iernut ( hu, Radnót, ) is a town in Mureș County, central Transylvania, Romania. It administers eight villages: Cipău (''Maroscsapó''), Deag (''Marosdég''), Lechința (''Maroslekence''), Oarba de Mureș (''Marosorbó''), Porumbac (''Porumbáktanya''), Racameț (''Józseftanya''), Sălcud (''Szélkút''), and Sfântu Gheorghe (''Csapószentgyörgy''). It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the Romanian rural systematization program. The commune is situated on the Transylvanian Plateau. It lies on the banks of the Mureș River; the Lechința River discharges into the Mureș here. Demographics The 2011 census revealed the following demographic data: * Romanians (76.55%) * Hungarians (13.36%) * Roma (9.84%) * others (0.18%) Main sights * The Reformed church (built between 1486 and 1593); * Kornis-Rakóczi-Bethlen Castle (built in 1545); * The two lakes near the city; * Mureș River; * Lupoaica; * Old Buildings. References Populated places in Mureș ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bazna
Bazna (german: Baaßen; Transylvanian Saxon dialect: ''Baußen''; hu, Bázna) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bazna, Boian (''Bonnesdorf''; ''Bonnesdref''; ''Alsóbajom'') and Velț (''Wölz''; ''Welz''; ''Velc'' or ''Völc''). It lies northeast of Mediaș, within the catchment area of the Târnava Mică River. Settled by Transylvanian Saxons in the 13th century, in the late 1870s the Bazna area became part of Austria-Hungary's Kis-Küküllő County, in the Dicsőszentmárton subdivision. Following the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918, its villages became part of the Kingdom of Romania. At the 2011 census, 66.7% of inhabitants were ethnic Romanians, 29.7% Roma, 2.6% Hungarians and 0.8% Germans. At the 2002 census, 86.6% were Romanian Orthodox, 4% Greek-Catholic, 3.6% Pentecostal, 2.2% Reformed, 1.4% Baptist and 0.9% Lutheran. Villages Bazna Bazna village is first attested in a document of 1302. Initiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
