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Ghidfalﾄブ
Ghidfalﾄブ ( hu, Gidﾃｳfalva, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania composed of four villages: *Angheluﾈ / Angyalos *Fotoﾈ / Fotosmartonos *Ghidfalﾄブ / Gidﾃｳfalva *Zoltan / ﾃ詠falvazoltﾃ｡n It formed part of the Szﾃｩkely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. Until 1918, the village belonged to the Hﾃ｡romszﾃｩk County of the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became part of Romania. Demographics The commune has an absolute Szﾃｩkelys, Szﾃｩkely Hungarian people, Hungarian majority. According to the 2011 Census it has a population of 2,596 of which 98.42% or 2,555 are Hungarian. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghidfalau Communes in Covasna County Localities in Transylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covasna County
Covasna County (, hu, Kovﾃ｡szna megye, ) is a county ( judeﾈ) of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Sfﾃ｢ntu Gheorghe. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 210,177, making it the second least populous of Romania's 41 counties and the population density was . In 2002 the ethnic composition of the county was as follows: * Hungarians 窶 73.58% (or 164,158) * Romanians 窶 23.28% (or 51,790) * Romani 窶 2.68% (or 5,973) According to the 2011 census, the composition of the county was: * Hungarians 窶 73.74% (or 150,468) * Romanians 窶 22.02% (or 45,021) * Romani 窶 4.05% (or 8,267) * Others - 0.19% Covasna County has the second-greatest percentage of Hungarian population in Romania, just behind the neighboring county of Harghita. The Hungarians of Covasna are primarily Szﾃｩkelys. Geography Covasna county has a total area of . The main part of the relief consists of mountains from the Eastern Carpathians group. Most localities can be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdﾃｩly; german: Siebenbﾃｼrgen) 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 Criﾈ兮na and Maramureﾈ, 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 Braﾈ冩v, Sibiu, Tﾃ｢rgu Mureﾈ, Alba Iulia and Sighiﾈ冩ara. It is also the home of some of Romania's UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the Villages with fortified churches, the Historic Centre of Sighiﾈ冩ara, the Dacian Fortresses of the Orﾄκ冲ie Mountains and the Roﾈ冓a Montanﾄ Mining Cultural Landscape. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC窶106 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, Romﾃ｢nia ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iaﾈ冓, Cluj-Napoca, Timiﾈ冩ara, Constanﾈ嫗, Craiova, Braﾈ冩v, and Galaﾈ嬖. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Romania from the north to the southwest, include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of . Settlement in what is now Romania began in the Lower Paleolithic, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szﾃｩkely Land
The Szﾃｩkely Land or Szeklerland ( hu, Szﾃｩkelyfﾃｶld, ; ro, ﾈ喨nutul Secuiesc and sometimes ; german: Szeklerland; la, Terra Siculorum) is a historic and ethnographic area in Romania, inhabited mainly by Szﾃｩkelys, a subgroup of Hungarians. Its cultural centre is the city of Tﾃ｢rgu Mureﾈ (Marosvﾃ｡sﾃ｡rhely), the largest settlement in the region. Szﾃｩkelys (or Szeklers) live in the valleys and hills of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, corresponding mostly to the present-day Harghita, Covasna, and parts of Mureﾈ counties in Romania. Originally, the name ''Szﾃｩkely Land'' denoted the territories of a number of autonomous Szﾃｩkely seats within Transylvania. The self-governing Szﾃｩkely seats had their own administrative system, and existed as legal entities from medieval times until the 1870s. The privileges of the Szﾃｩkely and Saxon seats were abolished and seats were replaced with counties in 1876. Along with Transylvania and eastern parts of Hungary proper, the Szﾃｩkel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hﾃ｡romszﾃｩk County
Hﾃ｡romszﾃｩk (''Three Seats''; Romanian: ''Trei Scaune'') was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Situated in south-eastern Transylvania, its territory is now in central Romania (in the counties of Covasna, Braﾈ冩v and Bacﾄブ). The capital of the county was Sepsiszentgyﾃｶrgy (now Sfﾃ｢ntu Gheorghe). Geography Hﾃ｡romszﾃｩk county shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Csﾃｭk, Udvarhely, Nagy-Kﾃｼkﾃｼllﾅ, and Brassﾃｳ. The river Olt flowed through the county. The Carpathian Mountains formed its southern and eastern border. Its area was around 1910. History Hﾃ｡romszﾃｩk means "three seats". Hﾃ｡romszﾃｩk County was a combination of three seats of the Szﾃｩkelys: Kﾃｩzdiszﾃｩk, Orbaiszﾃｩk, and Sepsiszﾃｩk (plus some villages of the former Felsﾅ-Fehﾃｩr County). The county was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. In 1920, under the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania under the name Trei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom around the year 1000;Kristﾃｳ Gyula 窶 Barta Jﾃ｡nos 窶 Gergely Jenﾅ: Magyarorszﾃ｡g tﾃｶrtﾃｩnete elﾅ訴dﾅ遡tﾅ鼠 2000-ig (History of Hungary from the prehistory to 2000), Pannonica Kiadﾃｳ, Budapest, 2002, , p. 687, pp. 37, pp. 113 ("Magyarorszﾃ｡g a 12. szﾃ｡zad mﾃ｡sodik felﾃｩre jelentﾅ壮 eurﾃｳpai tﾃｩnyezﾅ宋ﾃｩ, kﾃｶzﾃｩphatalommﾃ｡ vﾃ｡lt."/"By the 12th century Hungary became an important European factor, became a middle power.", "A Nyugat rﾃｩszﾃｩvﾃｩ vﾃ｡lt Magyarorszﾃ｡g.../Hungary became part of the West"), pp. 616窶644 his family (the ﾃ〉pﾃ｡d dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years. By the 12th century, the kingdom became a European middle power within the Western world. Due to the Ottoman occupation of the central and so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traitﾃｩ de Trianon, hu, Trianoni bﾃｩkeszerzﾅ租ﾃｩs, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon chﾃ｢teau in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It formally ended World War I between most of the Allies of World War I and the Kingdom of Hungary. French diplomats played the major role in designing the treaty, with a view to establishing a French-led coalition of the newly formed states. It regulated the status of the Kingdom of Hungary and defined its borders generally within the ceasefire lines established in November窶泥ecember 1918 and left Hungary as a landlocked state that included , 28% of the that had constituted the pre-war Kingdom of Hungary (the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy). The truncated kingdom had a population of 7.6 million, 36% compared to the pre-war kingdom's population of 20.9 million. Though the areas that were allocated to neighbouring countries had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szﾃｩkelys
The Szﾃｩkelys (, Szﾃｩkely runes: 正･正愚正汝正解正), also referred to as Szeklers,; ro, secui; german: Szekler; la, Siculi; sr, ﾐ｡ﾐｵﾐｺﾐｵﾑ厰ｸ, Sekelji; sk, Sikuli are a Hungarian subgroup living mostly in the Szﾃｩkely Land in Romania. A significant population descending from the Szﾃｩkelys of Bukovina lives in Tolna and Baranya counties in Hungary and certain districts of Vojvodina, Serbia. In the Middle Ages, the Szﾃｩkelys played a role in the defense of the Kingdom of Hungary against the Ottomans in their posture as guards of the eastern border. With the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, Transylvania (including the Szﾃｩkely Land) became part of Romania, and the Szﾃｩkely population was a target of Romanianization efforts. In 1952, during the communist rule of Romania, the former counties with the highest concentration of Szﾃｩkely population 窶 Mureﾈ, Odorhei, Ciuc, and Trei Scaune 窶 were legally designated as the Magyar Autonomous Region. It was superseded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian People
Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation andﾂ 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窶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 disti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practices. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in turn, defines the census of agriculture as "a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes In Covasna 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
