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Rupea

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Country
  
Romania

Status
  
Town

Area
  
74.87 km²

Local time
  
Friday 11:15 PM

County
  
Brașov County

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
5,011 (2011)


Weather
  
12°C, Wind NW at 10 km/h, 71% Humidity

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Rupea (German Reps; Hungarian: Kőhalom, "mound of rocks"; Latin Ripa) is a town in Brașov County in Transylvania, Romania. It administers one village, Fișer (Schweischer; Sövénység), which has a fortified church. Older Romanian names for the settlement include Cohalm and Holuma. At the 2011 census, 71.6% of inhabitants were Romanians, 19.5% Hungarians, 7.1% Roma and 1.7% Germans.

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Map of Rupea 505500, Romania

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References

Rupea Wikipedia