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Praid (, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Salzberg) is a commune in
Romanian Census 2002
retrieved on June 25, 2010
The commune's chief economic activity centers around the Praid salt mine that provides salt for both industrial and gastronomical use and attracts over 400,000 tourists every year.
www.parajd.lap.hu
Salt mine official site
Harghita County
Harghita (, hu, Hargita megye, ) is a county (județ) in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc.
Demographics 2002 census
In 2002, Harghita County had a population of 326,222 and a populatio ...
, Romania
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. It lies in the Székely Land
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, an ethno-cultural region in eastern 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 ...
, and is composed of six villages:
Demographics
The commune has an absolute Hungarian ( Székely) majority. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 6,502, of which 91.68% are Hungarian and 2.65%Roma
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. The 2002 Census reported 69.36% of the total population belonging to the Protestant 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 fou ...
, while Roman Catholicism
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is professed by 22.46% of the respondents.retrieved on June 25, 2010
Natives
*Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon
Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon (30 May 1884 – 21 June 1976) was a commanding general of the Royal Hungarian Army (1920–1945), Minister of Defence, a military theorist and historian.
Career highlights
* Commissioned lieutenant in 1905 after gr ...
(1884–1976), commanding general of the Royal Hungarian Army
Tourism
The commune's chief economic activity centers around the Praid salt mine that provides salt for both industrial and gastronomical use and attracts over 400,000 tourists every year.
See also
* Dacian fortress of PraidExternal links
www.parajd.lap.hu
Salt mine official site
References
{{Communes of Harghita County Communes in Harghita County Localities in Transylvania Székely communities Mining communities in Romania