Band ( Hungarian: ''Mezőbánd''; Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in

Mureș County Mureș County (, , ) is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical region of Transylvania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș. The county was established in 1968, after the administrative reor ...

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, composed of eleven villages: Band, Drăculea Bandului (''Drekulyatelep''), Fânațe (''Fekete''), Iștan-Tău (''Istentó''), Mărășești (''Marosesd''), Negrenii de Câmpie (''Feketelak''), Oroiu (''Székelyuraly''), Petea (''Mezőpete''), Țiptelnic (''Száltelek''), Valea Mare (''Nagyvölgy''), and Valea Rece (''Hidegvölgy''). Mădăraș village was part of the commune until 2004, when it was split off to form a separate commune. In 2011, Fânațele Mădărașului village was also split off and transferred to Mădăraș Commune.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census, the commune had a population of 7,726, of which 45.42% were Székely

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, 37.12%

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, and 17.46%

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. At the 2021 census, Band had a population of 6,126; of those, 35.1% were Romanians, 31.36% Hungarians, and 19.38% Roma.

Natives

* Iosif Hodoșiu (1829–1880), historian, politician, lawyer, publisher, and a founding member of the

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Demographics

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