Cetatea de Baltă ( hu, Küküllővár; german: Kokelburg) is a commune in
Alba County,
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 Ap ...
,
Romania
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. The commune is composed of four villages: Cetatea de Baltă, Crăciunelu de Sus (''Christendorf''; ''Felsőkarácsonyfalva''), Sântămărie (''Frauenkirch''; ''Boldogfalva'') and Tătârlaua (''Taterloch''; ''Felsőtatárlaka'').
Geography
The commune is located in the northeastern corner of the county, on the border with
Sibiu
Sibiu ( , , german: link=no, Hermannstadt , la, Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'', hu, Nagyszeben ) is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Ci ...
and
Mureș counties. It is traversed by county road DJ 117, which connects it to
Târnăveni
Târnăveni (, historically Diciosânmartin; Hungarian: ''Dicsőszentmárton'', ; German: ''Sankt Martin'', earlier ''Marteskirch'') is a city in Mureș County, central Romania. It lies on the Târnava Mică River in central Transylvania. The ci ...
, to the northeast, and to
Blaj
Blaj (; archaically spelled as ''Blaș''; hu, Balázsfalva; german: Blasendorf; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Blußendref'') is a municipiu, city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 20,630 inhabita ...
, to the southeast; the county seat,
Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia (; german: Karlsburg or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; hu, Gyulafehérvár; la, Apulum) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the Mureș River in the historical ...
, is some past Blaj.
To the east it borders with
Adămuș
Adămuș ( hu, Ádámos; Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a Commune in Romania, commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Adămuș, Chinciuș (''Kincses''), Cornești (''Sövényfalva''), Crăiești (''Magyarki ...
commune from Mureș County and with
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 ( ...
commune from Sibiu County, to the south and west with
Valea Lungă commune, and to the west and north with
Jidvei
Jidvei (, hu, Zsidve, german: Seiden) is a commune in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, located on the river Târnava. Jidvei is located in the north-western part of Romania, in the Transylvanian Plateau. Jidvei was first mentioned in documen ...
commune.
Cetatea de Baltă lies on the left bank of the river
Târnava Mică
The Târnava Mică ("Small Târnava"; hu, Kis-Küküllő; german: Kleine Kokel) is a river in Romania. Its total length is , and its drainage basin area is . Its source is in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, in Harghita County. It flows to the w ...
. The river
Balta
Balta may refer to:
People
* Balta (footballer) (born 1962), Spanish footballer and manager
* Balta (surname)
Places
* Balta (crater), on Mars
* Balta, Mehedinți, Romania
*Bâlta, a village in Filiași, Dolj County, Romania
*Bâlta, a village ...
which discharges into the Târnava Mică in the village of Sântămărie. The river
Tătârlaua
The Tătârlaua is a left tributary of the river Balta in Romania. It discharges into the Balta near Cetatea de Baltă
Cetatea de Baltă ( hu, Küküllővár; german: Kokelburg) is a commune in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. The commune is ...
is a left tributary of the river Balta; it discharges into the Balta in the village of Tătârlaua.
Population
At the 2011 census, the commune had 2,798 inhabitants, of whom 48.4% were
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 l ...
, 33.3%
Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
Places Australia
* Roma, Queensland, a town
** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
*Roma Street, Brisbane, a ...
, 17.8%
Hungarians
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, and 0.5%
Germans
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The villages by ethnic majority, as of 2002:
Touristic sights
*The Bethlen Castle, built in the 16th century in the
French Renaissance
The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define th ...
style and restored in the 17th-18th centuries in the
Baroque
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style.
*A fortress (1st century BC-1st century AD), today only ruins.
*The Reformed Church, a 13th-century building.
Economy
The most important economic resource is agriculture. Cetatea de Baltă is part of the
Târnave Vineyard, making
viticulture
Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...
an essential component of the local economy.
References
![Cetatea de BaltăAB (4) retusat 2016](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Cetatea_de_Balt%C4%83AB_%284%29_retusat_2016.jpg)
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Communes in Alba County
Localities in Transylvania