Mărgău (german: Meregau; hu, Meregyó) is a commune in

Cluj County Cluj County (; german: Kreis Klausenburg, hu, Kolozs megye) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat ( ro, Oraș reședință de județ) is Cluj-Napoca (german: Klausenburg). Name In Hungarian, it is known as ''Kolozs megye ...

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. It is composed of six villages: Bociu (''Bocs''), Buteni (''Kalotabökény''), Ciuleni (''Incsel''), Mărgău, Răchițele (''Havasrekettye'') and Scrind-Frăsinet (''Kőrizstető''). Răchițele village is the birthplace of former

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Emil Boc Emil Boc (; born 6 September 1966) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until 6 February 2012 and is the current Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of Transylvania, where he was first elected in Ju ...

, currently Mayor of

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, while Mărgău village is the birthplace of

Iosif Capotă Iosif Capotă (January24, 1912September2, 1958) was a physician who, after the Soviet occupation of Romania, became the leader of an anti-communist resistance group in the Mărgău–Huedin area. Capotă was born in the village of Mărgău, Cluj ...

, a noted anti-communist resistance fighter from the early

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. Mărgău is notable for the

Gumuțeasca Gumuțeasca or Gomuțeasca (sometimes referred to as ''limba gumuțească'', "Gumutseascan language", or ''limba de sticlă'', "language of the glass") is an argot (a speech form spoken by a group of people to prevent outsiders from understanding ...

, an

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spoken in the commune created by the natives to speak between each other without outsiders understanding them when travelling around the country to sell their glass products, a traditional profession of the commune.

Geography

Mărgău is in an area dominated by the .

Demographics

According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,869 people living in this commune. Of this population, 99.62% are ethnic

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, 0.26% are ethnic

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and 0.10% ethnic

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Natives

References

*''Atlasul localităților județului Cluj'' (Cluj County Localities Atlas), Suncart Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Communes in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania {{ClujCounty-geo-stub