Cornești, Cluj
Cornești ( hu, Magyarszarvaskend; german: Hirschdorf) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of nine villages: Bârlea (''Ónok''), Cornești, Igriția (''Kisigrice''), Lujerdiu (''Lózsárd''), Morău (''Móró''), Stoiana (''Esztény''), Tiocu de Jos (''Alsótök''), Tiocu de Sus (''Felsőtök''), and Tioltiur (''Tötör''). The commune lies on the banks of the river Lujerdiu. It is located in the central-north part of the county, at a distance of from Gherla and from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca. Cornești borders the following communes: Bobâlna to the north, Dăbâca and Panticeu to the west, Iclod to the south, and Aluniș to the east. Demographics According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,809 people living in this commune. Of this population, 83.80% are ethnic Romanians, 14.64% are ethnic Hungarians, and 1.54% ethnic Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian or ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cluj County
Cluj County (; german: Kreis Klausenburg, hu, Kolozs megye) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat ( ro, Oraș reședință de județ) is Cluj-Napoca (german: Klausenburg). Name In Hungarian, it is known as ''Kolozs megye'', and in German as ''Kreis Klausenburg''. Under Kingdom of Hungary, a county with an identical name (Kolozs County, ro, Comitatul Cluj) existed since the 11th century. Demography At the 2011 census, Cluj County had a population of 691,106 inhabitants, down from the 2002 census. On 1 January 2015, an analysis of the National Institute of Statistics revealed that 13.7% of the county population was between 0 and 14 years, 69.8% between 15 and 64 years, and 16.4% 65 years and over. 66.3% of the population lives in urban areas, having the fourth-highest rate of urbanization in the country, after Hunedoara (75%), Brașov (72,3%), and Constanța (68,8%). Ethnic composition At the 2011 census, the ethnic composition was as follows: * Ro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Iclod
Iclod ( hu, Nagyiklód; german: Grossikladen) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Fundătura (''Szamosjenő''), Iclod, Iclozel (''Kisiklód''), Livada (''Dengeleg'') and Orman (''Ormány''). Demographics According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 4,420 people living in this commune. Of this population, 95.11% are ethnic Romanians, 2.55% are ethnic Hungarians and 2.26% ethnic Romani. Natives *Ioan Bob *Gheorghe Moceanu Gheorghe Moceanu (1838–1909) was a Transylvanian, later Romanian physical education teacher who laid the foundations for the discipline in his adopted country. Born in Orman, Cluj County, in Austrian-ruled Transylvania, he attended high s ... References ;General *''Atlasul localităților județului Cluj'' (Cluj County Localities Atlas), Suncart Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Communes in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania {{ClujCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Communes In Cluj County
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision, and typically share responsibilities and property. This way of life is sometimes characterized as an "alternative lifestyle". Intentional communities can be seen as social experiments or communal experiments. The multitude of intentional communities includes collective households, cohousing communities, coliving, ecovillages, monasteries, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, hutterites, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. History Ashrams are likely the earliest intentional communities founded around 1500 BCE, while Buddhist monasteries appeared around 500 BCE. Pythagoras founded an intellectual vegetarian commune in about 525 BCE in southern Italy. Hundreds of modern intentional communities were formed across Europe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Romani People 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]   |
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Hungarian People
Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and Kingdom of Hungary, historical Hungarian lands who share a common Hungarian culture, culture, Hungarian history, history, Magyar tribes, ancestry, and Hungarian language, language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic languages, 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, Hungarians in Slovakia, Slovakia, Hungarians in Ukraine, Ukraine, Hungarians in Romania, Romania, Hungarians in Serbia, Serbia, Hungarians of Croatia, Croatia, Prekmurje, Slovenia, and Hungarians in Austria, Austria. Hungarian diaspora, Significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various oth ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Romanian People
The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Romanian culture and ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 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, 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 interpretation of census data results. The subject of Moldovan vs Romanian ethnicity touches upon the sensitive topic ofMoldova's national identit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Demographics Of Romania
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Romania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. About 88.9% of the people of Romania are ethnic Romanians, whose language, Romanian, is a Balkan Romance language, descended from Latin with some French, German, English, Greek, Slavic, and Hungarian borrowings. Romanians are by far the most numerous group of speakers of an Eastern Romance language today. It has been said that they constitute "an island of Latinity" in Eastern Europe, surrounded on all sides either by Slavic peoples or by the Hungarians. The Hungarian minority in Romania constitutes the country's largest minority, 6.1 per cent of the population. With a population of about 19,000,000 people in 2022, Romania received 989,357 Ukrainian refugees on 27 May 2022, according to the United Nations (UN). The 2022 Russian invasion of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aluniș, Cluj
Aluniș ( hu, Kecsed; german: Pergelinsdorf) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Aluniș, Corneni (''Szilkerék''), Ghirolt (''Girolt''), Pruneni (''Kecsedszilvás'') and Vale (''Bánffytótfalu''). Demographics According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,403 people living in this commune. Of this population, 99% are ethnic Romanians, 0.92% are ethnic Hungarians and 0.07% ethnic Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma .... References *''Atlasul localităţilor judeţului Cluj'' (Cluj County Localities Atlas), Suncart Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Communes in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania {{ClujCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Panticeu
Panticeu ( hu, Páncélcseh; german: Böhmischhofen) is a commune in the northern part of Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Cătălina (''Szentkatolnadorna''), Cubleșu Someșan (''Magyarköblös''), Dârja (''Magyarderzse''), Panticeu and Sărata (''Szótelke''). Demographics According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 2,001 people living in this commune. Of this population, 85.25% are ethnic Romanians, 10.49% ethnic Romani and 4.19% are ethnic Hungarians. Natives *Iuliu Hațieganu Iuliu Hațieganu (April 14, 1885 – September 4, 1959) was a Romanian internist doctor particularly recognized for research done in the field of tuberculosis. He founded in Cluj a valuable school of internal medicine. Today, Cluj University of ... References *''Atlasul localităților județului Cluj'' (Cluj County Localities Atlas), Suncart Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Communes in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Apuseni Mountains. Broader definitions of Transylvania also include the western and northwestern Romanian regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally Banat. Transylvania is known for the scenery of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history. It also contains Romania's second-largest city, Cluj-Napoca, and other iconic cities and towns such as Brașov, Sibiu, Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia and Sighișoara. It is also the home of some of Romania's List of World Heritage Sites in Romania, UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, Villages with fortified churches, the Historic Centre of Sighișoara, the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains and the Rosia Montana Mining Cultural Landsc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dăbâca
Dăbâca ( hu, Doboka; german: Dobeschdorf) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Dăbâca, Luna de Jos (''Kendilóna''), and Pâglișa (''Poklostelke''). Geography The commune lies on the banks of the river Lonea. It is located in the central-north part of the county, at a distance of from Gherla and from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca. Dăbâca borders the following communes: Panticeu to the north, Cornești and Iclod to the east, Borșa and Bonțida to the south, and Vultureni to the west. The ruins of lie on Fortress Hill, at an altitude of ; the fortress once was the seat of Doboka County. Demographics According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,804 people living in this commune. Of this population, 87.91% are ethnic Romanians, 7.53% are ethnic Hungarians, and 4.43% ethnic Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Eur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bobâlna
Bobâlna (''Olpret'' until 1957; hu, Alparét; german: Krautfeld) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania, having a population of 1,888. It is composed of eleven villages: Antăș (''Antos''), Băbdiu (''Zápróc''), Blidărești (''Tálosfalva''), Bobâlna, Cremenea (''Keménye''), Maia (''Mánya''), Oșorhel (''Erdővásárhely''), Pruni (''Nagymező''), Răzbuneni (''Radákszinye''), Suarăș (''Szóváros'') and Vâlcelele (''Bujdos''). It is situated in the historical region of Transylvania. The first document that mentions the village is from 1332. This village was the place where the 15th century Bobâlna revolt started. Demographics According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,888 people living in this town. Of this population, 99.76% are ethnic Romanians, 1.85% ethnic Romani and 1.37% are ethnic Hungarians. Natives * Ferenc Barlabássy (c. 1540–1599), Hungarian nobleman * Alexandru Vaida-Voevod (1872–1950), politician, served ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |