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Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County seat, is the second largest city in Romania. With a population of more than 47,000 inhabitants, Turda is the second largest city in Cluj County. Dej Gherla Huedin. Cluj County has 5 municipalities, 1 town and 75 communes. Municipalities: Câmpia Turzii; pop. 22,223 (as of 2011) Cluj-Napoca – county seat; pop. 324,576
Cluj-Napoca (/ ˈkluːʒnæˌpoʊkə / KLOOZH-na-POH-kə; Romanian: [ˈkluʒ naˈpoka] ⓘ), or simply Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozsvár [ˈkoloʒvaːr] ⓘ, German: Klausenburg), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country [5] and the seat of Cluj County.
The history of Cluj-Napoca covers the time from the Roman conquest of Dacia, when a Roman settlement named Napoca existed on the location of the later city, through the founding of Cluj and its flourishing as the main cultural and religious center in the historical province of Transylvania, until its modern existence as a city, the seat of Cluj County in north-western Romania.
It is located in the central-north part of the county, at a distance of 28 km (17 mi) from Gherla and 45 km (28 mi) from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca. Cornești borders the following communes: Bobâlna to the north, Dăbâca and Panticeu to the west, Iclod to the south, and Aluniș to the east.
The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca (USAMVCN) (Romanian: Universitatea de Științe Agricole și Medicină Veterinară Cluj-Napoca) is a university in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With around 6,000 students, the university offers 21 undergraduate programs; all are available in Romanian, 2 in French and 1 in ...
The main campus is located in the city of Cluj-Napoca, with university buildings spread across the city. The university has 17 student housing areas, [20] totaling 5,280 residential quarters (4,964 for students, 100 for athletes and 216 for PhD); [21] most notable are Hașdeu and Economica. All dormitories are renovated, thermally insulated ...
From 1796 to 1932, it was the only Orthodox church in Cluj. Vasile Moga was enthroned bishop there in 1811, but political pressure soon forced him to leave for Rășinari . In 1921, when Nicolae Ivan became the first bishop of the Vad, Feleac and Cluj Diocese , the church became his cathedral, holding that status until 1933, when the Dormition ...
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961), poet and philosopher. Nicolae Bocșan (1947-2016), historian, rector of Babeș-Bolyai University (2004–2008) Alexandru Borza (1887-1971), botanist, founder of the Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden. Corneliu Coposu (1914-1995), founder of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party, anti-communist political prisoner.