Balc ( hu, Bályok) is a
commune located in
Bihor County
Bihor County () is a county (județ) in western Romania. With a total area of , Bihor is Romania's 6th largest county geographically and the main county in the historical region of Crișana. Its capital city is Oradea.
Toponymy
The origin of ...
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Crișana
Crișana ( hu, Körösvidék, german: Kreischgebiet) is a geographical and historical region in north-western Romania, named after the Criș (Körös) River and its three tributaries: the Crișul Alb, Crișul Negru, and Crișul Repede. In Ro ...
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Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, a ...
. It is composed of five villages: Almașu Mare (''Kozmaalmás''), Almașu Mic (''Szóvárhegy''), Balc, Ghida (''Berettyódéda'') and Săldăbagiu de Barcău (''Szoldobágy'').
Sights
* ''Reformed Church'' in Balc, built in the 18th century (1791), historic monument
* ''Degenfeld-Schomburg Castle'' in Balc, built in the 19th century (1896), historic monument
cetati.medievistica.ro - Cetăţi din Transilvania - Balc
retrieved on June 29, 2012
References
Balc
Balc ( hu, Balk) was, according to many historians (''e.g.'', Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, Ştefan Pascu), the third ''voivode'' of Moldavia, ruling in ca. 1359 or 1364, but the sequence of the ''voivode''s listed in the Slavo-Romanian chronicles d ...
Localities in Crișana
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