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Aranyosszék
Aranyos seat (; ; )Attila M. Szabó: Historical and Administrative Toponymy of Transylvania, the Banat and Partium. Miercurea-Ciuc, 2003, pp. II/1079-80. was the seat (territorial administrative unit) of the Transylvanian Székelys living in the Valley of the Arieș River (Hungarian: ''Aranyos''). The free Székely Guards were granted a part of the lands belonging to the king around the old Turda Castle (in ruins, today in the Moldovenești area), as a reward for the courage they showed in battles against the Tatars. Here they settled in 21 villages, in around 1270. This was the newest Székely Seat, because the other Székely territories (today: Székely Land) were populated earlier. The centre of the seat was a small market town (oppidum), Felvinc, now Unirea village. In the late 19th century, when the administrative system of the Kingdom of Hungary was reorganised, the Seat was united with Torda County and Torda-Aranyos County was created. The region is today part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Székely Land
The Székely Land or Szeklerland (, , Old Hungarian script, Székely runes: 𐲥𐳋𐳓𐳉𐳗𐳌𐳞𐳖𐳇; and sometimes ; ; ) is a historic and ethnographic area in present-day Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians. Its cultural centre is the city of Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely), the largest settlement in the region. Székelys (or Szeklers) live in the valleys and hills of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, corresponding mostly to the present-day Harghita County, Harghita, Covasna County, Covasna, and parts of Mureș County, Mureș counties in Romania. Originally, the name ''Székely Land'' denoted the territories of a number of History of the Székely people, autonomous Székely seats within Transylvania. The self-governing Székely seats had their own administrative system, and existed as legal entities from medieval times until the 1870s. The privileges of the Székely and Transylvanian Saxons, Saxon Seat (territorial-administrative uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unirea, Alba
Unirea, previously ''Vințu de Sus'' (, ), is a Commune in Romania, commune located in the north-east of Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Ciugudu de Jos (''Alfüged''), Ciugudu de Sus (''Felfüged''), Dumbrava (''Dombró''), Inoc (''Inakfalva''), Măhăceni (''Aranyosmohács''), and Unirea. Geography Unirea is located on the Mureș River, in the north-east corner of Alba County, approximately from the county capital, Alba Iulia, and from the town of Turda, on the Roads in Romania, Romanian National Road DN1. The commune is bordered by Cluj County in the north and west, the town of Ocna Mureș in the east, and the commune of Mirăslău, Alba, Mirăslău in the south. The Unirea train station and the Unirea Train station#Halt, halt serve the Căile Ferate Române, CFR Căile Ferate Române Line 300, main line 300, which connects Bucharest with the Hungary–Romania border, Hungarian border near Oradea. History From the late 13th century until 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Székely Settlements
Following is a listThis list may not be complete because it only contains the settlements mentioned in Balázs Orbán: ''Székelyföld leírása'' (Description of Székely Land), 1868. The list also fails to cover those settlements that were originally part of the Székely Seats but gave up, or lost their freedom before the 19th century. of Székely settlements. The list contains the municipalities belonging to the Székely Seats in the 19th century, before the administrative reform in Hungary. The Seats were the traditional self-governing territorial units of the Transylvanian Székelys during medieval times. (Saxons were also organised in Seats.) The Seats were not part of the traditional Hungarian county system, and their inhabitants enjoyed a higher level of freedom (especially until the 18th century) than those living in the counties. Aranyosszék (Aranyos Seat) Csíkszék (Csík Seat) Háromszék (Three Seats) Marosszék Marosszék () was one of the seats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seat (territorial-administrative Unit)
Seats (, , , ) were administrative divisions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. The seats were autonomous regions within the Kingdom, and were independent from the feudal Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), county system. Their autonomy was granted in return for the military services they provided to the Hungarian Kings. The following divisions were at one point Székely seats: * Marosszék * Udvarhelyszék * Csíkszék * Gyergyószék * * Sepsiszék * Orbaiszék * Kézdiszék * Aranyosszék Seats were formed by the: * Székelys * Transylvanian Saxons * Kunság, Cumans * Jassic people * Szepes County#Seat of the 10 Lance-bearers, Ten Lance Bearers Most seats gave up their autonomous status and military traditions in late medieval times and paid tax instead. Medieval Kingdom of Hungary Former administrative divisions of countries {{Hungary-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torda-Aranyos
Torda-Aranyos was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (central Transylvania). The capital of the county was Torda (present-day Turda). Geography Torda-Aranyos county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Arad, Bihar, Kolozs, Maros-Torda, Kis-Küküllő, Alsó-Fehér and Hunyad. The rivers Mureș and Arieș flowed through the county. Its area was 3,514 km2 around 1910. History Torda-Aranyos county was formed in 1876, when the western part of the Torda County and the Székely seat of Aranyosszék (plus small parts of Alsó-Fehér County) were united. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian counties of Cluj (the north, including Turda), Alba ''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English-language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts and Scots united in the ninth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moldovenești
Moldovenești (formerly ''Orfalău'' and ''Varfalău''; ; ) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Bădeni (''Bágyon''), Moldovenești, Pietroasa (''Csegez''), Podeni (''Székelyhidas''), Plăiești (''Kövend''), and Stejeriș (''Kercsed''). Vălenii de Arieș (formerly ''Rachișul de Arieș'' or for short ''Rachiș''; ''Aranyosrákos''; ''Krebsbach'') was a separate village until 1966, when it was absorbed into Moldovenești village. Geography The commune is situated in the northern foothills of the Trascău Mountains, at an altitude of , in the valley of the Arieș River. It is located in the southern part of Cluj County, southwest of Turda and south of the county seat, Cluj-Napoca, on the border with Alba County. History The oldest record about the ancient castle at the village is from 1075, calling the place ''Castrum Turda'' (the old Turda Castle). During the Tatar invasions of Hungary in the 13th Century, most of the area a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a mainly continental climate, and an area of with a population of 19 million people. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Europe's second-longest river, the Danube, empties into the Danube Delta in the southeast of the country. The Carpathian Mountains cross Romania from the north to the southwest and include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of . Bucharest is the country's Bucharest metropolitan area, largest urban area and Economy of Romania, financial centre. Other major urban centers, urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timiș ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihai Viteazu, Cluj
Mihai Viteazu (archaic: ''Sânmihaiu''; ; ) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cheia (''Mészkő''), Cornești (''Sinfalva''), and Mihai Viteazu. Mihai Viteazu village, which is named after the medieval ruler Michael the Brave (''Romanian'': Mihai Viteazu), was founded in 1925 by the merging of two villages, Sânmihaiu de Jos (''Alsószentmihály'') and Sânmihaiu de Sus (''Felsőszentmihály''). Those two, together with Cornești and Cheia, were first mentioned in documents in the 14th century, after the settlement of Székelys in the Aranyos Seat area. However, archaeologists unearthed traces of human dwellings from earlier periods, too. The commune covers an area of . The most interesting sight of the area is the Turda Gorge (''Cheile Turzii''). Demography At the 2002 census, the commune had 5,423 inhabitants, of which 71.2% were Romanians, 27.4% Hungarians, and 1.3% Roma; 66.6% were Romanian Orthodox, 13.8% Unitarian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Călărași, Cluj
Călărași (; ; ) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bogata (''Bogátpuszta''), Călărași, and Călărași Gară (''Harasztosi vasútitelep''). Geography The commune is situated at the western edge of the Transylvanian Plateau, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Grind. It is located in the southeastern corner of Cluj County, just south of the city of Turda, on the border with Alba County. The county seat, Cluj-Napoca, is to the northwest. Transportation The A3 motorway and national road DN1 (part of European route E81) merge at the northern edge of Bogata village. The Călărași-Turda train station in Călărași Gară serves the CFR Main Line 300, which connects Bucharest with the Hungarian border near Oradea. Just east of Călărași Gară (in Luna commune) is the 71st Air Base "General Emanoil Ionescu" of the Romanian Air Force. Demographics According to the 2011 census, the commune had 2,021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimetea
Rimetea (until 1925 ''Trascău''; ; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colțești (formerly ''Sângeorzul Trascăului''; ''Torockószentgyörgy''; ''Sankt Georgen'') and Rimetea. A former mining town, today it is known as the location of the Piatra Secuiului (Hungarian: ''Székelykő'', lit. " Rock of the Szeklers") mountain. As of 2011, Rimetea had a majority Hungarian population, at 85%. The village has a strong cultural significance for Hungarians and Transylvanian-Hungarians, and is home to a Szekler ethnographic museum. In 1999, the village was given the Europa Nostra award. Geography Rimetea lies in the Apuseni Mountains of central Transylvania, in a valley north of Aiud. The village rests at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Rimetea. It is nestled between the peaks of Piatra Secuiului () and Ardașcheia (), in the Trascău Mountains. The distinct location of Rimetea at the bottom of Piatra Secuiul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirăslău
Mirăslău (; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,805 as of 2021. The commune is composed of six villages: Cicău (''Csákó''), Decea (''Marosdécse''), Lopadea Veche (''Oláhlapád''), Mirăslău, Ormeniș (''Marosörményes''), and Rachiș (''Oláhrákos''). Geography The commune lies at the western edge of the Transylvanian Plateau, on the banks of the Mureș River. It is situated in the northern part of Alba County, from the city of Aiud, on the border with Cluj County. National road DN1 leads south to Aiud, Teiuș, and the county seat, Alba Iulia, away, and north to Turda and Cluj-Napoca, at a distance of . The A10 motorway runs through Decea, parallel to DN1. The Mirăslău train station serves the CFR Line 300, which runs from Bucharest to Brașov, Teiuș, Cluj-Napoca, and on to the Hungarian border. History Mirăslău is the site of a battle in 1600 between the Wallachian army led by Michael the Brave and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocna Mureș
Ocna Mureș (; , , ) is a town in Alba County, Romania, located in the north-eastern corner of the county, near the Mureș River. The town administers five villages: Cisteiu de Mureș (''Magyarcsesztve''), Micoșlaca (''Miklóslaka''), Războieni-Cetate (''Székelyföldvár''), Uioara de Jos (until 1960 ''Ciunga''; ''Csongva''), and Uioara de Sus (''Felsőmarosújvár''). Its former name is ''Uioara'', and was called ''Ocna Mureșului'' from 1925 to 1956. History The town is situated next to a large deposit of salt, mined in the past until the ceiling of the mines collapsed from water infiltration in 1978. Ocna Mureș has a chlorosodic products plant, a salt extraction plant, and a spa which uses the salty water from the former mines. The spa is again open to the public, due to new investments made by the city and county in a new building with spa, salty basins, medical treatments, and sports facilities. The chemical plant in town was lastly purchased by an Indian company from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
