Hodoșa ( hu, Székelyhodos or colloquially ''Hodos'',
Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in
Mureș County
Mureș County (, ro, Județul Mures, hu, Maros megye) is a county ('' județ'') of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș. The county was established in 1968, after the administrative ...
,
Transylvania
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,
Romania
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composed of four villages:
*Hodoșa
*Ihod / Ehed
*Isla / Iszló
*Sâmbriaș / Jobbágytelke
It formed part of the
Székely Land
The Székely Land or Szeklerland ( hu, Székelyföld, ; ro, Ținutul Secuiesc and sometimes ; german: Szeklerland; la, Terra Siculorum) is a historic and ethnographic area in Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians. ...
region of the historical
Transylvania
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province. Until 1918, the village belonged to the
Maros-Torda County
Maros-Torda was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (eastern Transylvania) and has been administratively succeeded by county Mureș which consist of about half the territory of ...
of the
Kingdom of Hungary
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. After the
Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in ...
of 1920, it became part of
Romania
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.
Demographics
The commune has an absolute
Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2002
census
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, it has a population of 1,420 of which 91.06% or 1,293 are Hungarian.
See also
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List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureș County)
This is a list of Hungarian names for towns and communes in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania.
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Mures County
Hungarian exonyms in Mures
Hungarian
Hungarian
Exonyms
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References
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Communes in Mureș County
Localities in Transylvania