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Ocland
Oklánd
County Harghita County
Status Commune
Mayor Miklós Cseke, Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, since 2004
Population (2002) 1,403
Geographical coordinates 46°10′0″N, 25°25′0″E

Ocland or Oklánd (Romanian: Ocland; Hungarian: Oklánd) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania comprising 3 villages: Administrative map of Romania. ... Harghita (Hungarian: Hargita) is a county (judeÅ£) in the center of Romania, Eastern Transylvania, with the capital city at Miercurea-Ciuc. ... The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, (also Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania; Hungarian: Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség, RMDSZ; Romanian: Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România, UDMR) is a Romanian political alliance, effectively (though not officially) a party, representing ethnic Hungarians in Romania. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harghita (Hungarian: Hargita) is a county (judeÅ£) in the center of Romania, Eastern Transylvania, with the capital city at Miercurea-Ciuc. ...

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Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely (Hungarian) majority. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 1,403 of which 98.36% or 1,380 are Hungarian. The Székely or Szeklers (Hungarian: , Romanian: , German: ) ( sék-ei in pronunciation ) are a Hungarian ethnic group mostly living in Transylvania in Romania, with a significant population also living in Vojvodina, Serbia. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...


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During the early 1580’s Ocland was a writer of considerable prominence and respectability.
Ocland is also outspokenly patriotic in his politics and orthodox in his religion.
This, no doubt, was the method Ocland instilled in the students under his hand, and so there is a certain interest in observing that when he himself sat down to write he adhered to the same recipe.
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Ocland discreetly neglects to mention that his overagressive courting of Elizabeth led to his conviction on his beheading on a charge of high treason, in 1549.
Non aliter quam Ocland is alluding to the conclusion of the pseudo-Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
Buchanan); he died shortly thereafter, which Ocland sees as an act of divine punishment and God’s intervention on behalf of Elizabeth (the subsequent reference to an uncle is to the Duc de Guise, the real moving power of French policy at this time).
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