Miercurea Nirajului ( ) is a town 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 ...
,
Romania
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. It lies in the
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 Hung ...
, an ethno-cultural region in eastern
Transylvania
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. The following seven villages are administered by the town: Beu (''Székelybő''), Dumitreștii (''Demeterfalva''), Lăureni (''Kisszentlőrinc''), Moșuni (''Székelymoson''), Șardu Nirajului (''Székelysárd''), Tâmpa (''Székelytompa''), and Veța (''Vece'').
Geography
The town is situated on the
Transylvanian Plateau
The Transylvanian Plateau (; ) is a plateau in central Romania.
Description
The plateau lies within and takes its name from the historical region of Transylvania, and is almost entirely surrounded by the Eastern Carpathians, Eastern, Southern ...
, on the banks of the river
Niraj
The Niraj (; ) is a river in the Gurghiu Mountains, Mureș County, northern Romania. Its name originates from the Hungarian word ''nyár'', meaning "Populus, poplar". It is a left tributary of the river Mureș (river), Mureș. It starts at the co ...
and its tributaries, the rivers
Nirajul Mic and
Valea spre Șardu
The Valea spre Șardu is a right tributary of the river Niraj in Romania
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. Miercurea Nirajului is located in the east-central part of Mureș County, due east of the county seat,
Târgu Mureș
Târgu Mureș (, ; ; German language, German: ''Neumarkt am Mieresch'') is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the list of cities and towns in Romania, 16th-largest city in Romania, with 116,033 ...
.
History
The town is part of the
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 Hung ...
region of the historical
Transylvania
Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...
province. Its first written mention is from 1493 as ''Oppidum Zereda''.
István Bocskay was elected here as prince of Transylvania in 1604.
Until 1918, the town belonged to the
Maros-Torda County
Maros-Torda was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (eastern Transylvania) and has been administratively succeeded by county Mureș which consist of about half the territory o ...
of the
Kingdom of Hungary
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. After the
Hungarian–Romanian War
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After the ...
of 1918–19 and the
Treaty of Trianon
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of 1920, it became part of
Romania
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.
Demographics
The commune has a
Székely Hungarian majority. According to the
2011 census, it had a population of 5,554, of which 83.3% were Hungarians, 10.4%
Romanians
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, and 6.3%
Roma
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People, characters, figures, names
* Roma or Romani people, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas.
* Roma called Roy, ancient Egyptian High Priest of Amun
* Roma (footballer, born 1979), born ''Paul ...
.
[Populația stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune]
National Institute of Statistics; accessed August 26, 2015 At the
2021 census, Miercurea Nirajului had a population of 5,554; of those, 77.9% were Hungarians, 8.3% Romanians, and 6.46% Roma.
Natives
*
Zoltan Lunka (born 1970), boxer
Economy
The town is the site of the
Miercurea Nirajului gas field.
Twin towns
Miercurea Nirajului is
twinned with:
*
Csorna
Csorna is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary. Csorna is located near the Fertő-Hanság National Park. There are two districts in the town: the Földsziget and the Csatárimajor.
Etymology
The name comes from Slavic languages, Slavic '' ...
,
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
References
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Populated places in Mureș County
Localities in Transylvania
Towns in Romania