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Miercurea Sibiului

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Country
  
Romania

Status
  
Town

Climate
  
Cfb

Population
  
3,792 (2011)

County
  
Sibiu County

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Area
  
85.12 km²

Local time
  
Wednesday 12:04 AM

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Weather
  
9°C, Wind S at 8 km/h, 71% Humidity

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Miercurea Sibiului (German: Reußmarkt; Hungarian: Szerdahely) is a town in the west of Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, central Romania, 34 km to the west of the county capital Sibiu.

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Map of Miercurea Sibiului, Romania

Administration

Miercurea Sibiului was declared a town in 2004 and it is one of the smallest and least urbanised ones in the country.

The town administers two villages:

  • The village of Apoldu de Sus (Großpold; Nagyapold), 5 km away
  • The village of Dobârca (Dobring; Doborka), 8 km away.
  • Also, 5 km away there is a small spa town.

    At the 2011 census, 83.1% of inhabitants were Romanians, 14.7% Roma and 1.9% Germans.

    Geography

    The town lies on the contact area between the Transylvanian Plateau and the Cindrel Mountains, a massif in the Parâng Mountains group in the Southern Carpathians, on a small depression formed by the Secaş River.

    The town is situated on a main Romanian road link: the DN1 road between Sibiu and Sebeş, E68/E81 European routes.

    History

    Since the 12th or 13th century it was inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons and from 1355 it became one of the original seven seats of Saxondom from the Sibiu area.

    The city is the place of birth of Ilie Măcelaru (1822-1891), a lawyer who participated in the 1848 revolution and a founding member of the Romanian National Party that was formed in Miercurea Sibiului on 17 March 1869.

    References

    Miercurea Sibiului Wikipedia