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Blaj (Hungarian: Balázsfalva; German: Blasendorf) is a city in Alba county, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 20,758. Alba (Hungarian: Fehér) is a Romanian county (JudeÅ£) in Transylvania. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen; see also other languages) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ...

The first public school in Romanian was established in Blaj in 1754. Blaj was also the first place to have Romanian written with the Latin alphabet instead of the Cyrillic alphabet in which it had traditionally been written. Blaj was also a center for the Romanian Age of Enlightenment, being the founding site of the Şcoala Ardeleană society. The castle of the Bethlen dynasty is a popular tourist site near Blaj. 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of as part of a larger period which includes the Age of Reason. ... The Transylvanian School (Åžcoala Ardeleană) was a cultural movement which was founded after part of the the Romanian Romanian Orthodox Church of Transylvania accepted the leadership of the Pope and became the Romanian Greek-Catholic Uniate Church. ... Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania (1580-1629) Gabriel (Gabor) Bethlen (Hungarian: Bethlen Gábor, Slovak: Gabriel Betlen) (1580-1629), prince of Transylvania (1613-1629) and leader of a anti-Habsburg insurrection in the Habsburg Royal Hungary on the territory of present-day Slovakia. ...

Population

According to the 2002 census:

Ethnicity

• Romanian - 17,099
• Magyar - 1,675
• German - 60

Religion

• Orthodox - 14,752
• Greek-Catholic - 3,411
• Romano-Catholic - 734
• Reformat - 985
• Baptist - 408
• Penticostal - 220

See also

• Bethlen Castle
• Câmpia Libertăţii

The Field of Liberty On this holly land of the romanian people were held the two National Assemblys in May and September 1848. ...

External links

• Blaj - official site (in Romanian)