Ip ( ro, Ip; hu, Ipp) is a commune 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 ...

Crișana Crișana ( hu, Körösvidék, german: Kreischgebiet) is a geographical and historical region in north-western Romania, named after the Criș (Körös) River and its three tributaries: the Crișul Alb, Crișul Negru, and Crișul Repede. In Roma ...

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 ...

. It is composed of five villages: Cosniciu de Jos (''Alsókaznacs''), Cosniciu de Sus (''Felsőkaznacs''), Ip, Zăuan (''Szilágyzovány'') and Zăuan-Băi (''Zoványfürdő''). The commune was the initial site of the events that led to the

Ip massacre The events of the Ip massacre escalated in the early hours of 14 September 1940, in Ipp, (today Ip, Sălaj County), Northern Transylvania. After two Hungarian soldiers died there in an accidental explosion, rumors spread that they had been kil ...

in 1940.

Sights

* Reformed Church in Ip, built in the 16th century,

historic monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, hist ...

monumenteromania.ro - Reformed Church in Ip, historic monument
retrieved on May 18, 2012

References

Communes in Sălaj County Localities in Crișana {{Sălaj-geo-stub