Country Romania Status Town Area 59.57 km² Local time Wednesday 4:16 PM | County Bistrița-Năsăud County Time zone EET (UTC+2) Population 10,628 (2011) | |
Weather 14°C, Wind W at 10 km/h, 56% Humidity | ||
Beclean ([beˈkle̯an]; Hungarian and German: Bethlen) is a town in Bistrița-Năsăud County, in north-eastern Transylvania, Romania. It had 10,628 inhabitants at the 2011 census. 81.6% of these were Romanians, 14.2% Hungarians and 3.7% Roma.
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Map of Beclean 425100, Romania
The town administers three villages: Coldău (Goldau; Várkudu), Figa (Füge) and Rusu de Jos (Alsóoroszfalu). It is the site of an important railway junction (the station is called Beclean pe Someș), where secondary routes to Sighetu Marmației and Suceava diverge from the main railway line from Brașov to Satu Mare.
History
The town of Beclean is also the ancestral seat of the Hungarian Bethlen family.
References
Beclean Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA