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Hajongard cemetery

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Strada Matei Basarab, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Hajongard cemetery (officially Central Cemetery, in Hungarian Házsongárdi temető, from German Hasengarten), on Avram Iancu Street, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, founded in the sixteenth century. It is one of the most picturesque sights of the city. It covers an area of ca. 14 hectares.

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Notable interments

  • Ion Agârbiceanu, writer, journalist, politician, academician and archpriest
  • Miklós Bánffy, writer, illustrator, scenographer and foreign minister of Hungary
  • Sámuel Brassai, linguist and teacher
  • János Apáczai Csere, humanist scholar
  • Constantin Daicoviciu, historian, archaeologist, professor and communist politician
  • Gheorghe Dima, composer, conductor and teacher
  • Iuliu Hațieganu, physician
  • Jenő Janovics, actor, scenarist and director
  • Adrian Marino, essayist, critic, historian and literary theorist
  • Imre Mikó, governor of Transylvania
  • Emil Racoviță, savant, explorer and founder of biospeleology

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    Hajongard cemetery Wikipedia
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