Hodoșa ( hu, Székelyhodos or colloquially ''Hodos'',
Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in
Mureș County
Mureș County (, ro, Județul Mures, hu, Maros megye) is a county ('' județ'') of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș. The county was established in 1968, after the administrative ...
,
Transylvania
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,
Romania
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composed of four villages:
*Hodoșa
*Ihod / Ehed
*Isla / Iszló
*Sâmbriaș / Jobbágytelke
It formed part of the
Székely Land region of the historical
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the ...
province. Until 1918, the village belonged to the
Maros-Torda County of the
Kingdom of Hungary
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. After the
Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It formal ...
of 1920, it became part of
Romania
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.
Demographics
The commune has an absolute
Székely Székely may refer to:
*Székelys, Hungarian people from the historical region of Transylvania, Romania
**Székely Land, historic and ethnographic area in Transylvania, Romania
* Székely (village), a village in northeastern Hungary
*Székely (sur ...
Hungarian majority. According to the 2002
census
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, it has a population of 1,420 of which 91.06% or 1,293 are Hungarian.
See also
*
List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureș County)
References
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Communes in Mureș County
Localities in Transylvania