Baraolt (; hu, Barót, ) is a town and administrative district in

Covasna County Covasna County (, hu, Kovászna megye, ) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Sfântu Gheorghe. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 210,177, making it the second least populous of Romania' ...

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. It lies in the

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, an ethno-cultural region in eastern

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. The town was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1224. It administers five villages: *Biborțeni / Bibarcfalva *Bodoș / Bodos *Căpeni / Köpec *Micloșoara / Miklósvár *Racoșul de Sus / Felsőrákos

Demographics

According to the 2011

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, Baraolt has a population of 8,567 and an absolute Székely Hungarian majority 8,213 (96%)

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, 237 (3%)

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, 100

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, 15 others). Approximately 47.9% of the town's inhabitants adhere to the

Hungarian Reformed Church The Reformed Church in Hungary ( hu, Magyarországi Református Egyház, MRE) is the largest Protestant church in Hungary, with parishes among the Hungarian diaspora abroad. Today, it is made up of 1,249 congregations in 27 presbyteries and four ...

, while 29.9% follow

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, 16.8% consider themselves Unitarians and 2.6% are

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. According to the 2011

the ethnic composition of the town was as follows: Székely Hungarian made up (9,271 (95.87%)

, 300 (3.1%)

, 84

, 15 others). The town has one high school and a provincial hospital with 82 beds. The hospital's specialties include internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynecology, and paediatrics; it also has an accident and emergency service. ''Demographic movement according to the censuses:'' Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) id:barra value:rgb(0.6,0.7,0.8) ImageSize = width:280 height:220 PlotArea = left:50 bottom:50 top:30 right:30 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:12000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:500 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo BarData= bar:1977 text:1977 bar:1992 text:1992 bar:2002 text:2002 bar:2011 text:2011 PlotData= color:barra width:20 align:left bar:1977 from:0 till: 9235 bar:1992 from:0 till: 10493 bar:2002 from:0 till: 9670 bar:2011 from:0 till: 8567 PlotData= bar:1977 at: 9235 fontsize:S text: 9.235 shift:(-7,5) bar:1992 at: 10493 fontsize:S text: 10.493 shift:(-13,5) bar:2002 at: 9670 fontsize:S text: 9.670 shift:(-13,5) bar:2011 at: 8567 fontsize:S text: 8567 shift:(-11,4) TextData= fontsize:S pos:(20,20) text:Census Data. Graphics made by Wikipedia.

References

External links

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About the town on Covasna County's Prefecture's Site
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About the town on Covasna County's Council's site
Barot (Baraolt) from Agostonfalva

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