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Ocna Mureș. / 46.39000°N 23.86000°E / 46.39000; 23.86000. Ocna Mureș ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˌokna ˈmureʃ]; Latin: Salinae, Hungarian: Marosújvár, German: Miereschhall) is a town in Alba County, Romania, located in the north-eastern corner of the county, near the Mureș River. The town administers five villages: Cisteiu de ...
The county has a total area of 6,714 km 2 (2,592 sq mi). The northeastern side of the county consists of the Călimani and Gurghiu Mountains and the sub-Carpathian hills, members of the Inner Eastern Carpathians. The rest of the county is part of the Transylvanian Plateau, with deep but wide valleys. The main river crossing in the county is the ...
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 commune is situated on the Transylvanian Plateau, on the bank of the rivers Domald and Sântioana, at an altitude of 375 m (1,230 ft). It is located in the southern part of Mureș County, 40 km (25 mi) from the county seat, Târgu Mureș, on the border with Sibiu County. Viișoara is crossed by county road DJ142C, which joins it to ...
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 ...
Luduș ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈluduʃ]; Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɒroʃludɒʃ], German: Ludasch) is a town in Transylvania, Romania in Mureș County, 44 km (27 mi) south-west from the county's capital, Târgu Mureș . Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămești ( Eckentelep ), Cioarga ...
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 Mureș ( Romanian: [ˈmureʃ]) or Maros ( IPA: [ˈmɒroʃ]; German: Mieresch, Serbian: Мориш, romanized : Moriš) is a 789-kilometre-long (490 mi) river in Eastern Europe. Its drainage basin covers an area of 30,332 km 2 (11,711 sq mi). [3] : 22 It originates in the Hășmașu Mare Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania ...