Vultureni () 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 ...
,
Transylvania
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,
Romania
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. It is composed of six villages: Băbuțiu (''Báboc''), Bădești (''Bádok''), Chidea (''Kide''), Făureni (''Kolozskovácsi''), Șoimeni (''Sólyomkő''), and Vultureni.
Geography
The commune is located in the central-north part of the county, 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 ( ...
. It lies on the banks of the river
Borșa and its right tributary, the river
Șoimeni.
Demographics
According to the
census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,568 people living in this commune; of those, 84.69% were ethnic
Romanians
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, 11.73% ethnic
Hungarians
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, and 3.50% ethnic
Roma.
At the
2011 census, Vultureni had a population of 1,516, of which 80.28% were Romanians, 10.95% Hungarians, and 6% Roma. At the
2021 census, the commune had 1,535 inhabitants; of those, 78.18% were Romanians, 7.04% Hungarians, and 6.12% Roma.
Natives
*
András Kovács (1925–2017), Hungarian film director and screenwriter
*
Jacob Salomon (1916–1963), member of the Haganah and Palmach
References
Communes in Cluj County
Localities in Transylvania
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