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Gheorgheni (Hungarian: Gyergyószentmiklós) is a town in Harghita county, in Romania. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (900x845, 172 KB) Summary City map about Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (900x845, 172 KB) Summary City map about Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Harghita (Hungarian: Hargita) is a county (judeÅ£) in the center of Romania, Eastern Transylvania, with the capital city at Miercurea-Ciuc. ...


It was first mentioned in 1332 and was part of Kingdom of Hungary, then to the Principate of Transylvania (1557-1765), to the Grand Duchy of Transylvania (1765-1867), later again to Hungary (1867-1918) and finally to Romania (since 1918). Events November 7 - Lucerne joins the Swiss Confederation with Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden. ... The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság) is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed in Central Europe from 1000 to 1918. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen; see also other languages) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ... Events Spain is effectively bankrupt. ... 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...


Nearby are two spectacular natural sites, the Lacu Roşu a beatutiful lake in the mountains, and in close proximity is the Cheile Bicazului which is a dramatic narrow canyon through the Eastern Carpathian Mountains forming the border with Neamţ county. Lacu RoÅŸu (Red Lake) is a natural dam lake situated in the Eastern Carpathians chain, in Harghita county, Romania. ... Satellite image of the Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains are the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and northern Hungary. ... Administrative map of Romania with Neamţ county highlighted Neamţ is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Moldavia region, with the capital city at Piatra Neamţ (population: 125,050). ...


Demographics

It has a population of 20,018, of which 87.6% (17,527) are Szekelys (2002 census). The Székely or Szeklers (Hungarian: Székely; Romanian: Secui; German: Szekler) are a Hungarian ethnic group living in Transylvania in Romania. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

-1... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External site

  • About the Town
  • Official Town Website
  • Official Town Website in Hungarian

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Gheorgheni (602 words)
The high-level Giurgeului Basin lying at the upper reaches of the River Mures is a characteristic ethnographical region of Szeklerland.
An ethnographer of Gheorgheni Márton Tarisznyás wrote that "the history of Gheorgheni is the history of the struggle with the forest as well.
The centre of the region is Gheorgheni, the former district town.
The Presentation of County Harghita (6441 words)
The population from eastern part of the county of the depressions of Gheorgheni and Ciuc is catholic, orthodox of the area of Toplita and reformed in the area of Odorhei-Cristur.
Gheorgheni (town) -the place is mentioned first under the name of "Giorgio" on the list of the papal cashiers from 1333.
In the areas of Ciuc, Gheorgheni and Toplita the straw cultures (autumn wheat, barley, oat) and the potatoes occupy the main place in the crop rotation being followed by flax and sugar beet.
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