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Turda
Turda skyline
Turda skyline
Coat of arms of Turda
Coat of arms
Turda (Romania )
Turda
Location on Romania map
Coordinates: 46°32′00″N 23°52′00″E / 46.533333, 23.866667
Country Flag of Romania Romania
County Cluj County
Status Municipality
Government
 - Mayor Tudor Ştefănie (Democratic Party)
Area
 - Total 91. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania List of counties See also List of Romanian Counties by Population The Judeţe (translated in English as "counties" are administrative Romania 's administration is relatively centralised and administrative subdivisions are therefore fairly simplified A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The Democratic Party ( Romanian: Partidul Democrat, PD was a centre-right party of Romania. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 43 km² (35. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 3 sq mi)
Population (July 1, 2007)[1]
 - Total 57,381
 - Density 627. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 6/km² (1,625. 5/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 - Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Website: http://www.primturda.ro/

Turda (German: Thorenburg; Hungarian: Torda) is a city and Municipality in Cluj County, Romania, situated on the Arieş River. Eastern European Time ( EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Daylight saving time ( DST Eastern European Summer Time ( EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 Time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+3 is used in the following locations Moscow Time Eastern European Summer Time West Asian Summer Time The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Hungarian ( magyar nyelv) is a Uralic language (more specifically a Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe. County capitals of Romania A municipality ( municipiu in Cluj (kluʒ Hungarian: Kolozs) is a County ( Judeţ) of Romania, in Transylvania, with the capital city at Cluj-Napoca Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania The Arieş (Aranyos is a River in Transylvania, Romania that flows through the Alba and Cluj Counties

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History

Founded as a Dacian city under the name Patavissa [2] or Potaissa (most frequently confirmed), Turda was conquered by the Romans. Dacia, in ancient geography was the land of the Dacians. It was named by the ancient Hellenes ( Greeks) " Getae " Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC The castrum established was named Potaissa too and became a municipium, then a colonia. The Latin word castra, with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean buildings or plots of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military A municipium (pl municipia) belonged to the second highest class of Roman cities being A Roman colonia (plural coloniae) was originally a Roman outpost established in conquered territory to secure it Potaissa was the basecamp of the Legio V Macedonica from 166 to 274. Legio V Macedonica ("Macedonian" was a Roman legion. It was probably originally levied by Consul Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus and Events By Place Roman Empire December 25 — Roman emperor Aurelian has a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus on the third

Salt mines were worked in the area since prehistoric times. After the Hungarian conquest, the Turda salt mines were first mentioned in 1075. The Kingdom of Hungary (short form Hungary) was a considerable state in Central Europe that existed from 1001 to 1918 then from 1919 to 1946 (The salt mines were closed in 1932 but have recently been reopened for tourism. A salt mine is an operation involved in the extraction of salt from Rock salt or halite a type of evaporitic deposit Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. )

Saxons settled in the area in the 11th century. The Transylvanian Saxons (Siebenbürger Sachsen Erdélyi szászok Saşi are a people of German ethnicity who settled in Transylvania (Siebenbürgen from the 12th The town was destroyed during the Tartar invasion in 1241-1242. Andrew III of Hungary gave royal privileges to the settlement. Andrew III the Venetian (III (Velencei András/Endre Andrija II Ondrej III (c These privileges were later confirmed by the Angevins of Hungary. Louis I the Great (I (Nagy Lajos Ludwik Węgierski Serbian: Lajoš I/Лајош I Croatian: Ludovik I Czech: Ludvík I

The Hungarian Diet was held here in 1467, by Matthias Corvinus. Matthias Corvinus ( Matthias the Just; February 23 1443 &ndash April 6 1490) was King of Hungary and Later, in the 16th century, Turda was often the residence of the Transylvanian Diet, too. Transylvania (Ardeal or ro ''Transilvania'' Erdély, see also other denominations) is a Central European region located in the eastern half of the Carpathian In Politics, a diet is a formal Deliberative assembly. The term is derived from Medieval Latin dietas, and ultimately comes from The 1558 Diet of Turda declared free practice of both the Catholic and Lutheran religions. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther In 1563 the Diet also accepted the Calvinist religion, and in 1568 it extended freedom to all religions, declaring that "It is not allowed to anybody to intimidate anybody with captivity or expelling for his religion" – a freedom unusual in medieval Europe. Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the This Edict of Turda is the first attempt at legislating general religious freedom in Christian Europe (though its legal effectiveness was limited). The Edict of Torda (modern name Turda in 1568 also known as the Patent of Toleration.

In 1609 Gabriel Báthori granted new privileges to Turda. Gabriel Báthory ( Hungarian: Báthory Gábor 15 August, 1589 &ndash 27 October, 1613) was Prince of Transylvania from These were confirmed later by Gabriel Bethlen. Gabriel Bethlen (de Iktár (- English, Hungarian: Bethlen Gábor, Romanian: Gabriel Bethlen, German: Gabriel In the battle of Turda, Ahmed Pasha defeated George II Rákóczi in 1659. György Rákóczi II ( January 30, 1621 &ndash June 7, 1660) a Transylvanian Hungarian ruler was the eldest son of George I

People

See also

Sister cities

Picture Gallery

City Center

Town hall

History museum

The V Macedonica Legion Castrum, today

Roman Tomb

The Catholic church

Theatre

LVM brick in Potaissa

Notes

  1. ^ Population as of July 1, 2007 (Romanian). For other nobles of the same name please see Sigismund. Sigismund Báthory ( 1572 - March 27, 1613) ( Emilian Ioan Dolha (born 3 November, 1979 in Turda) is a Romanian football Goalkeeper who currently plays for Étienne Hajdú, or István Hajdú (born August 12, 1907, Torda Torda-Aranyos vármegye (now Turda, judeţul Cluj) - Baruch Kimmerling ( October 16 1939 &ndash May 21 2007 was a professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For the leader of the Transylvanian Memorandum, see Ioan Raţiu. Tudor Ioan Popa is a Romanian football player currently under contract with Ceahlăul Piatra-Neamţ. The Decree of Turda was a decree by Louis I Anjou of Hungary. Universitas Valachorum ( Estate of the Vlachs) is the Latin denomination for an Estate, an institution of self-government of the Romanians This is a list of localities in Transylvania that were either in majority or in minority historically inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons, having either churches placed in The Romans exploited the gold mines in the province extensively building access roads and forts to protect them like Abrud. Transylvania is a region of present-day Romania. The region now known as Transylvania was once part of Dacia, and became part of the Roman Empire. Franziska Tesaurus is the richest Gepid royal tomb found in Romania. Angoulême is a commune in western France, capital of the Charente department. Hódmezővásárhely (pronounced, Croatian: Vašarhelj) is a city in south-east Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain, at the meeting Torda (Торда is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Žitište municipality in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province INSSE (April 4, 2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-04. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV
  2. ^ Patrouissa by Ptolemy Geographia III, 8, 4, miscopied from a *Pataouissa

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