Săvădisla () is a commune in

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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. It is composed of eight villages: Finișel (''Kisfenes''), Hășdate (''Hasadát''), Lita (''Oláhléta''), Liteni (''Magyarléta''), Săvădisla, Stolna (''Isztolna''), Vălișoara (''Járarákos''), and Vlaha (''Magyarfenes''; until 1889 ''Olahfenes''). The commune is located in the south-central part of Cluj County, southwest of 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 ( ...

Demographics

At the 2011 census, the commune had 4,392 inhabitants; 51.6% were

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, 44.4%

Romanians Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, ...

, and 1.8% Roma.Tab8. Populaţia stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune
2011 census results,

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, accessed 17 February 2020. At the 2021 census, Săvădisla had a population of 4,196; of those, 49.21% were Hungarians, 42.97% Romanians, and 1.95% Roma.

Archaeology

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has been discovered at ''Vlaha'', being one of the very few Gepid sites in Transylvania.

References

* ''Atlasul localităților județului Cluj'' (Cluj County Localities Atlas), Suncart Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca,

External links

The archaeological site at Vlaha
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