Turda
Facts
County	Cluj County
Status	municipality
Mayor	Tudor Ştefănie since 2000, representing the Democratic Party (Romania)
Area	91.43 km²
Population - at 2002 - Density Image File history File links Coa_turda. ... Image File history File links Turda_in_Romania. ... Administrative map of Romania As of 2003, Romania is divided into 41 counties and one municipality, as follows: A new administrative division was proposed, dividing the country into regions, but its implementation is uncertain since the county division is favoured by most Romanians. ... Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozs) is a county (judeÅ£) in the center of Romania, in Transylvania, with the capital city at Cluj-Napoca (population: 333,607). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Democrat, PD) is a centre-right (formerly social democrat) party of Romania. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ...	55,770 609 inh/km²
Geographical coordinates	46°33 N / 23°47' E
Web	City Website

Turda (Hungarian: Torda, German: Thorenburg) (population: 55,770) is a city and Municipality in Cluj County, Romania, situated on the Arieş river. A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ... A municipality (municipiu in Romanian) is, along with a commune, the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. ... Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozs) is a county (judeÅ£) in the center of Romania, in Transylvania, with the capital city at Cluj-Napoca (population: 333,607). ... The ArieÅŸ is a river in Transylvania, western Romania. ...

History

Founded as a Dacian city under the name Dierna, Turda was conquered by the Romans. The castrum established was named Potaissa and became a municipium, then a colonia. Potaissa was the basecamp of the Legio V Macedonica from 166 to 274. Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... In the Roman Empire, a castra (the plural form of castrum, castri, a fortification) was a Roman military camp. ... A municipium was the second highest class of a Roman city, and was inferior in status to the colonia. ... A colonia was a Roman outpost, usually established by veterans of a Roman Legion, who received land as a part of their retirement from the Legions. ... This coin was issued by Roman emperor Gallienus to celebrate the V Macedonica, whose symbol, the eagle, is crowned of wrath by Victoria. ... Events Pope Soter succeeds Pope Anicetus Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Laurence to Patriarch Alypius Dacia invaded by barbarians Conflict erupts on the Danube frontier between Rome and the Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni Roman envoy sent out by emperor Antoninus Pius. ... Events The Gallic Empire (Gaul and Britain) is reconquered by Roman Emperor Aurelian With the conquests of the Palmyran Empire (272) and the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire is united again Births Deaths Pope Felix I Cao Fang, emperor of the Kingdom of Wei Categories: 274 ...

In the Middle Ages, Turda was the residence of the Transylvanian Diet. Turda was the site of the Peace of Turda, which guaranteed religious freedom in Transylvania in 1568. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen; see also other languages) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ... In politics, a Diet is a formal deliberative assembly. ... Events March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. ...

The Romans began extracting salt from the nearby salt mines, which were used for this purpose until their closure in 1932. The mines have been reopened for tourism. A salt mine is an operation involved in the extraction of salt. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ...

Sister cities

• Angouleme, France
• Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary

Angoulême is a town in southwestern France, préfecture ( capital city) of the Charente département. ... HódmezÅ‘vásárhely  listen is a town in south-east Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain, at the meeting point of the Békés-Csanádi Ridge and the clay grassland surrounding the River Theiss (Hungarian: Tisza). ...

External links

• Street map