Câmpia Turzii (; ; ) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Cluj County Cluj County () is a county () of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat is Cluj-Napoca. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Kolozs megye''. Under the Kingdom of Hungary, a county with an identical name (Kolozs County, ) existed s ...

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, which was formed in 1925 by the union of two villages, Ghiriș (''Aranyosgyéres'') and Sâncrai (''Szentkirály''). It was declared a town in 1950 and a city in 1998. The city is located in the southeastern part of the county, on the right bank of the Arieș River, at a distance of from

Turda Turda (; , ; ; ) is a Municipiu, city in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is located in the southeastern part of the county, from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca, to which it is connected by the European route E81, and from nearby Câmpia ...

and from the county seat,

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

History

The village of Sâncrai was mentioned in a 1219 document as "villa Sancti Regis" ("village of Holy King"), while Ghiriș was first documented in 1292 as "Terra Gerusteleke" ("Gerusteleke", literally meaning "plot of Gerus" in Hungarian).

Michael the Brave Michael the Brave ( or ; 1558 – 9 August 1601), born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia (as Michael II, 1593–1601), Prince of Moldavia (1600) and ''de facto'' ruler of Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711), Transylvani ...

was murdered by agents of

Giorgio Basta Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt, Gjergj Basta or Gheorghe Basta (1550 – 1607) was an Kingdom of Naples, Italian general, diplomat, and writer of Arbëreshë people, Arbëreshë Albanian origin, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to com ...

at the current location of Câmpia Turzii on 9 August 1601. Câmpia Turzii is the "city of adoption" of

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and a sister city of

Siemianowice Śląskie Siemianowice Śląskie (; ; ) also known as Siemianowice is a city in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice, in the core of the Metropolis GZM - a metropolis with a population of 2 million people and is located in the Silesian Highlands, ...

Population

The population has evolved as follows since 1784: *1784: Ghiriș: 565; Sâncrai: 472 *1850: Ghiriș: 1,168; Sâncrai: 487 *1910: Ghiriș: 1,815; Sâncrai: 704 *1930 census: 4,124 *1948 census: 6,310 *1956 census: 11,518 *1977 census: 22,418 *2002 census: 26,823 * 2011 census: 22,223 * 2021 census: 20,590

Military activity

The city is home to the

Romanian Air Force The Romanian Air Force (RoAF) () is the air force branch of the Romanian Armed Forces. It has an air force headquarters, an operational command, five air bases, a logistics base, an air defense brigade, an air defense regiment and an ISR (Intel ...

's RoAF 71st Air Base, and during the

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of 2008, the 323d Air Expeditionary Wing of the

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. F-15s from

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in the

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flew out during the summit to augment air defence forces for the event. In April 2015, a U.S. Air Force group of A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft stationed in Germany arrived at the RoAF 71st Air Base to take part in exercises with the Romanian Air Force.

Natives

* Mihai Adam, footballer * Andra, singer * Sebastian Cojocnean, footballer * Andrei Cordoș, footballer * Andrei Coroian, footballer *

Cozmin Gușă Cozmin Horea Gușă (born 2 July 1970) is a Romanian physicist, journalist, and politician. A member of the National Initiative Party (PIN), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2004 to 2008. He has been marrie ...

, physicist, journalist, and politician * Iuliu Jenei, footballer * Cosmin Mărginean, footballer * Teodor Murășanu, writer and teacher * Mircea Rus, footballer * Virginia Ruzici, tennis player * Ioan Sabău, footballer * Cristian Silvășan, footballer * Cosmin Văsîie, footballer

References

Populated places in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania Cities in Romania Populated places established in 1925 Monotowns in Romania {{ClujCounty-geo-stub