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Mureș County ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmureʃ], Romanian: Județul Mures, Hungarian: Maros megye) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș. The county was established in 1968, after the administrative reorganization that re-introduced the historical județ ...
Târgu Mureș [a] ( / ˌtɜːrɡuː ˈmʊərɛʃ, ˌtɪər -/, Romanian: [ˈtɨrɡu ˈmureʃ] ⓘ; Hungarian: Marosvásárhely [ˈmɒroʃvaːʃaːrhɛj] ⓘ; German: Neumarkt am Mieresch) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th-largest city in Romania, with 116,033 inhabitants as of the ...
The Mureș Floodplain Natural Park, set aside by the Romanian government in 2005, is located in western Romania outside the city of Arad. The park covers 17,455 ha and follows the river Mureș westward from the city of Arad to the Hungarian border. The park is a typical ecosystem for wetlands, with running waters, lakes, swamps and floodplains ...
MS. Sâncraiu de Mureș ( Hungarian: Marosszentkirály, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɒrossɛntkiraːj] meaning "Holy King on the Mureș River") is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania composed of two villages: Nazna / Náznánfalva. Sâncraiu de Mureș. Around 1930, Cornățel ( Egerszeg) village was merged into Sâncraiu de Mureș.
The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (also called Black March, Hungarian: Fekete Március) [1] refer to violent incidents between the Hungarians and Romanians in Târgu Mureș and surrounding settlements in Transylvania, Romania in March 1990. The clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. [2]
The commune is located in the center of the department, on the left side of the Mureș river, on the Plateau of Transylvania (Podișul Transilvanei), 5 km south-west of Târgu Mureș, the capital of the county, of which it is a suburb. Cristești is crossed by the national road DN15 ( European Route 60) which connects Târgu Mureș with Turda ...
The Târgu Mureș metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in Târgu Mureș, Romania.It was founded in 2005. It has a population of 209,532 as of the 2011 census. It is Romania's only metropolitan area where Hungarians form the largest ethnic group, with 98,593 people.
INSEE /Postal code. 74194 /74540. Elevation. 380–593 m (1,247–1,946 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Mûres ( French pronunciation: [myʁ]; Arpitan: Mure) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south ...