Beclean (; Hungarian and German: ''Bethlen'') is a town in Bistrița-Năsăud County, in north-eastern Transylvania, Romania. The town administers three villages: Coldău (''Goldau''; ''Várkudu''), Figa (''Füge''), and Rusu de Jos (''Alsóoroszfalu'').

Geography

The town lies on the Transylvanian Plateau, at the confluence of the river Someșul Mare with its affluent, the Șieu. It is located in the western part of the county, at a distance of from the town of Năsăud and from the county seat, Bistrița; the city of

Dej Dej (; hu, Dés; german: Desch, Burglos; yi, דעעש ''Desh'') is a municipality in Transylvania, Romania, north of Cluj-Napoca, in Cluj County. It lies where the river Someșul Mic meets the river Someșul Mare. The city administers four vill ...

is to the west, in Cluj County.

History

The town of Beclean is the ancestral seat of the Hungarian

Bethlen family The House of Bethlen is the name of two Hungarian ancient noble families, ''Bethlen de Iktár'' and ''Bethlen de Bethlen''. Although they have similar coat of arms, those two families don't have proven mutual ancestry. Both can trace their noble li ...

. In 1850 the inhabitants of the town were 1,475, of which 805 Romanians, 327 Hungarians, 163 Jews, 163

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, 5 Germans, and 12 of other ethnicities. Beclean had 10,628 inhabitants at the 2011 census; of those, 81.6% were Romanians, 14.2% Hungarians, and 3.7% Roma.

Transportation

Beclean is the site of an important railway junction (the train station is called Beclean pe Someș), where secondary routes to Sighetu Marmației and Suceava diverge from the main Căile Ferate Române railway line 400 from Brașov to

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. The town is traversed by two

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: (part of European route E58), which joins

in Cluj County to Suceava, and , which joins Beclean to Cârlibaba in

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. Additionally, county road DJ172A connects it to Gherla in Cluj County, while road DJ172F provides an alternate route to Dej.

Education

Beclean is home to four high schools: the Petru Rareș National College, the

Henri Coandă Technological High School Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montm ...

, the Beclean Agricultural Technological High School, and High School Nr. 1. There is also a middle school, the Grigore Silași Gymnasium.

Natives

* Károly Bárányos *

György Bernády György Bernády (Beclean, Bethlen, 10 April 1864 – Târgu Mureș, 22 October 1938) was the mayor of Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely) twice, 1900–1912 and 1926–1929. In this period the :Image:1911 varoshaza.jpg, City Hall and the Cultural P ...

Cornel Cornea Cornel Flaviu Cornea (born 28 July 1981) is a Romanian former professional football player. His first match in Liga I was against FCM Bacău, when he was playing at Gloria Bistriţa. Cornea started his career in his hometown, Beclean, at Laminor ...

Cristian Costin Cristian Ionuț Costin (born 17 June 1998) is a Romanian professional footballer who last played as a right back or right midfielder for Liga I side FC Voluntari. In his career Costin also played for teams such as UTA Arad and CSM Reșița. C ...

* * Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash

References

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{{Bistriţa-Năsăud County Populated places in Bistrița-Năsăud County Localities in Transylvania Towns in Romania Monotowns in Romania Shtetls