Clara Maniu (born Clara Coroianu; 10 January 1842 – 29 July 1929) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n feminist and

suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

. She was the president of the Romanian women's movement organisation ''Reuniunea Femeilor Române Sălăjene (R.F.R.S)'' from 1881 to 1897. She was born in 1842 in Nagyderzsida,

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(now Bobota, in

Sălaj County Sălaj County () (also known as ''Land of Silvania'', ''silva, -ae'' means "forest") is a county ('' județ'') of Romania, located in the north-west of the country, in the historical regions of Crișana and Transylvania. It is bordered to the nort ...

). Her father, Demetriu Coroianu, was a

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priest, while her mother, Iuliana Pop, was the granddaughter of

protopope A protopope, or protopresbyter, is a priest of higher rank in the Eastern Orthodox and the Byzantine Catholic Churches, generally corresponding to Western Christianity's archpriest or the Latin Church's dean. History The rights and duties of these ...

Grigorie Pop from

Craidorolț Craidorolț ( hu, Királydaróc, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune of 2,215 inhabitants (2011) situated in Satu Mare County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Demographics Ethnic groups (2011 census): *Romanians: 53% *Hungarians: 2 ...

. She married

Ioan Maniu Ioan Maniu (; 10 September 1833 – 4 November 1895) was a Transylvanian Romanian lawyer, politician and journalist. Biography Maniu was born in 1833 in Szilágybadacsony, Kingdom of Hungary, now the village of Bădăcin, in Pericei commune, S� ...

in 1865, and among their five children was

Iuliu Maniu Iuliu Maniu (; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born lawyer and Romanian politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the Un ...

. She died in 1929 in Bădăcin, a village in

Pericei Pericei ( hu, Szilágyperecsen) is a commune located in Sălaj County, Crișana, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Bădăcin (''Szilágybadacsony''), Pericei, Periceiu Mic (''Kisperecsentanya''), and Sici (''Somlyószécs''). Geography The ...

commune, Sălaj County.

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1842 births 1929 deaths People from Sălaj County Romanian suffragists Romanian feminists Romanian Greek-Catholics 19th-century Romanian people {{Romania-bio-stub