Baciu ( hu, Kisbács or ''Bács''; german: Botschendorf) is a commune in Cluj County, located in the region of

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 ...

, in the northwestern part of

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. Baciu lies a short distance from the county seat of

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

. It is composed of seven villages: Baciu, Corușu (''Nádaskóród''), Mera (''Méra''), Popești (''Nádaspapfalva''), Rădaia (''Andrásháza''), Săliștea Nouă (''Csonkatelep''), and Suceagu (''Szucság''). The commune is located in the central part of the county, in the region called

Țara Călatei Țara Călatei ( hu, Kalotaszeg), The Land of Călata, is a region in Transylvania, Romania. It is one of the many areas in Western Romania with a significant Hungarian population, and it is a stronghold of old Transylvanian Hungarian folk tradi ...

, just west of the county seat,

. The river Nadăș (a left tributary of the Someșul Mic) flows through Baciu.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, 61.5% of the population of Baciu were ethnic

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, 29.0% were ethnic

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, and 6.4% were ethnic

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.Tab8. Populația stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune
2011 census results, National Institute of Statistics (Romania), accessed 17 February 2020.

Natives

* György Györffy

Notes

Biserica greco-catolică, RO CJ Salistea Noua (9)

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