Almașu Mare (german: Groß-Obstdorf; hu, Nagyalmás) is a commune located in Alba County,

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. With a population of 1,289 according to the 2011 census, the commune is composed of seven villages: Almașu Mare, Almașu de Mijloc, Brădet, Cib, Cheile Cibului, Glod and Nădăștia. Its current mayor, as of 2006, is Aron Zaharie. A former mining centre for

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, its income comes now mainly from

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

and agrotouristical activities. Almașu Mare's tourist objectives are the Cibu Gorges, the Glod Gorges, a thermal spring and the Achim Emilian

ethnographical Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

museum.

References

RO AB Biserica Sfantul Nicolae din Cib (24)

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