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Ulmeni, Maramureș
Ulmeni (formerly ''Șilimeghiu''; ; ) is a town in Maramureș County, Crișana, Romania. It was declared a town in 2004. The town administers seven villages: Arduzel (''Szamosardó''), Chelința (''Kelence''), Mânău (''Monó''), Someș-Uileac (''Szilágyújlak''), Tohat (''Szamostóhát''), Țicău (''Szamoscikó''), and Vicea (''Vicsa''). Geography Ulmeni is located in northwestern Romania, in the southwestern extremity of Maramureș County, from the county seat, Baia Mare, on the border with Sălaj County. It lies on the left bank of the Someș River, being the first town that the river crosses in Maramureș County. The town has two train stations ( and Țicău) serving the CFR Main Line 400, which connects Brașov with Baia Mare and Satu Mare. Demographics At the 2021 census, Ulmeni had a population of 7,110, of which 49.06% were Romanians, 23.73% Roma, and 20.37% Hungarians. At the 2011 census, the town had 7,078 inhabitants, of which 53.6% were Romanians, 23.7% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maramureș County
Maramureș County () is a county (județ) in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian as Мараморо́щина, in German language, German as ''Kreis Marmarosch'', and in Yiddish as מאַרמאַראָש. Geography Maramureș County is situated in the northern part of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical region of Transylvania, and has a border with Ukraine. This county has a total area of , of which 43% is covered by the Rodna Mountains, with its tallest peak, , at altitude. Together with the Gutin Mountains, Gutâi and Țibleș Mountains, Țibleș mountain ranges, the Rodna mountains are part of the Eastern Carpathians. The rest of the county are hills, plateaus, and valleys. The county is crossed by Tisza, Tisa River and its main tributaries: the Iza (river), Iza, Vișeu, and Mara (Iza), Mara rivers. Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Institute Of Statistics (Romania)
The National Institute of Statistics (, INS) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society. The institute is also responsible for conducting Romania's census every ten years, with the latest census being organised in 2022. Leadership The head of the NIS is currently Tudorel Andrei, while the three vice-presidents are: * Ioan-Silviu VÎRVA, in charge of economic and social statistics * Marian Chivu, in charge of national accounts and the dissemination of statistical information * Beatrix Gered, in charge of IT activities and statistical infrastructure History Romania's first official statistics body was the Central Office for Administrative Statistics (''Oficiul Central de Statistică Administrativă''), established on July 12, 1859, under the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. The organisation, one of the first national statistics organisations in Europe, conducted its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Maramureș County
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Towns In Romania By Romani Population
This list contains Romanian urban localities (municipalities or cities/towns) in which Roma people make up over 5% of the total population, according to the 2011 census. The Roma are an ethnic group which make up 3.3% of Romania's population. There are several rural localities ( communes and villages) which also have Roma populations exceeding 5% of the total population, even though those are not listed here. In localities where Roma make up more than 20% of the population, the Romani language can be used when addressing local authorities, while state-funded education and bilingual signs are also provided. This arrangement applies in several communes, as well as in three towns: Bechet, Budești and Ulmeni. See also * Romani people in Romania * List of Romani settlements Sources * Romanian 2002 Census Results Database: {{DEFAULTSORT:Towns in Romania by Romani population Roma Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petre Dulfu
Petre Dulfu (10 March 1856 – 31 October 1953) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet, translator and playwright. Born in Tohat, Sălaj County, his parents were Nichifor Dulfu and his wife Agapia (''née'' Bran), members of the rural intellectual class. From early childhood, his mother inspired a love of stories in him. He attended Hungarian-language primary school and gymnasium in Baia Mare from 1864 to 1871, earning top marks, and went to high school in the same town from 1872. In 1876, he graduated from high school in Cluj, where he studied for two years. He attended Franz Joseph University in the latter city, earning a doctorate in philosophy in 1881. His thesis, written in Hungarian, dealt with the work of Vasile Alecsandri, surveyed the Romanian literary context and included a dozen poems translated by Dulfu. After graduation, he moved to the Romanian Old Kingdom and worked as a teacher. After a brief stint in the capital Bucharest, he directed and taught at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignațiu Darabant
Ignațiu Darabant, Order of Saint Basil the Great, O.S.B.M. (26 October 1738 – 31 October 1805) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Oradea Mare from 1789 to 1805. Born in Vicea, Maramureș, Habsburg monarchy (present day – Romania) in 1738, he was Holy Orders, ordained a Priesthood (Catholic Church), priest on June 1765 as a member of the Order of Saint Basil the Great. He was appointed the Bishop by the Holy See on 30 March 1789. He was Consecration, consecrated to the Episcopal polity, Episcopate on 13 March 1790. The principal consecrator was Bishop Ioan Bob. He died in Oradea (present day – Romania) on 31 October 1805. References 1738 births 1805 deaths People from Ulmeni, Maramureș Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops 18th-century Eastern Catholic bishops 19th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Order of Saint Basil the Great {{RomanianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world, each overseen by one or more bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor of Saint Peter, upo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Church United With Rome, Greek-Catholic
The Romanian Greek Catholic Church or Romanian Church United with Rome is a ''sui iuris'' Eastern Catholic Church, in full union with the Catholic Church. It has the rank of a Major Archbishop, Major Archiepiscopal Church and it uses the Byzantine Rite, Byzantine liturgical rite in the Romanian language. It is part of the Major Archiepiscopal Churches of the Catholic Church that are not distinguished with a patriarchal title. Cardinal Lucian Mureșan, Archbishop of Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, has served as the head of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church since 1994. On December 16, 2005, as the ''Romanian Church United with Rome'', the Greek-Catholic church was elevated to the rank of a Major Archiepiscopal Church by Pope Benedict XVI, with Lucian Mureșan becoming its first major archbishop. Mureşan was made a cardinal, at the papal consistory, consistory of February 18, 2012. Besides the Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentecostal Union Of Romania
The Pentecostal Union of Romania () or the Apostolic Church of God () is Romania's fourth-largest religious body and one of its eighteen officially recognised religious denominations. At the 2021 census, some 404,000 Romanians declared themselves to be Pentecostalism, Pentecostals (2.1% of the population). Ethnically, as of 2002, they were 85.2% Romanians, 10.6% Roma minority in Romania, Roma, 1.9% Ukrainians of Romania, Ukrainians, 1.8% Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians and 0.5% belonged to other groups. They have 1,343 churches, 7,879 affiliates and 354 pastors,"Uniunea Penticostală" , at the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs (Romania), Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reformed Church In Romania
The Reformed Church in Romania (; ) is a Calvinist denomination and the largest Protestant church in Romania. The majority of its followers are of Hungarian ethnicity and Hungarian is the main church language. The large majority of the Church's parishes are in Transylvania; according to the 2021 census, 495,380 people or 2.6% of the total population belong to the Reformed Church. About 95% of the members were of Hungarian ethnicity. The religious institution is composed of two bishoprics, the Reformed Diocese of Királyhágómellék and the Reformed Diocese of Transylvania. The headquarters are at Oradea and Cluj-Napoca, respectively. Together with the Unitarian Church of Transylvania and the two Lutheran churches of Romania (the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania and the Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession), the Calvinist community runs the Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj. Doctrine The church adheres to the: Creeds * Apostle Creed *Nicene Creed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Orthodox
The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; , ), or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the church's Primate has borne the title of Patriarch. Its jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova, with additional dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Ukraine, Serbia and Hungary, as well as for diaspora communities in Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceania. It is the only autocephalous church within Eastern Orthodoxy to have a Romance language for liturgical use. The majority of Romania's population (16,367,267, or 85.9% of those for whom data were available, according to the 2011 census data), as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church sometimes refer to Orthodox Christian doctrine as ''Dreapta credință'' ("right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Romanian Census
The 2011 Romanian census was a census held in Romania between 20 and 31 October 2011. It was performed by some 120,000 census takers in around 101,000 statistic sectors throughout the country established by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) of Romania. Preparations started already in 2009, and it was announced that the process would not end until 2014. Anyone who did not answer questions in the census questionnaire would be fined between 1,500 and 4,500 Romanian lei, although 4 of the 100 questions related to the respondent's ethnicity, mother language, religion, and possible disabilities were not mandatory. Preliminary results were released once on 2 February 2012 and again on 20 August 2012. The final definitive result of the census came out on 4 July 2013, showing that, among other things, Romania had lost 1,559,300 people since the 2002 census, consequently having 20,121,641 inhabitants. Some people like sociologist Vasile Ghețău, director of the Center of Demog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
