Certeju de Sus () is a commune in

Hunedoara County Hunedoara County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva, Romania, Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as , ...

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 ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It is composed of nine villages: Bocșa Mare (''Boksatelep''), Bocșa Mică, Certeju de Sus, Hondol (''Hondol''; ), Măgura-Toplița (''Magura''), Nojag (''Nozság''), Săcărâmb (''Nagyág''; ''Gross-Astdorf''), Toplița Mureșului (''Toplica''), and Vărmaga (''Vormága''). The commune is the site of the Certej Mine and of the 1971 Certej dam failure.

Natives

Ioan Moța Ioan Moța (; Certeju de Sus, Nojag, Hunedoara County, 15 December 1868 - Bucharest, 20 November 1940) was a Romanian Romanian Orthodox Church, Orthodox priest, Romanian nationalism, nationalist politician, and journalist, as well as father to pr ...

(1868-1940), Romanian Orthodox priest, nationalist politician, and journalist

References

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