Country Romania Status Commune Postal Code 537305 Area 220.9 km² Local time Saturday 5:07 PM | County Harghita County Time zone EET (UTC+2) Area code(s) +40 266 Population 5,152 (2002) | |
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Weather 17°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 39% Humidity | ||
Suseni (Hungarian: Gyergyóújfalu, [ˈɟɛrɟoːuːjfɒlu]) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.
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Map of Suseni 537305, Romania
Component villages
The commune is composed of five villages:
History
The villages were part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. They belonged to Gyergyószék area until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when they fell within the Gyergyószentmiklós district of Csík County in the Kingdom of Hungary. Between 1762 and 1851, the village provided recruits for the 9th Company of the First Székely Infantry Regiment. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, they became part of Romania and fell within Ciuc County during the interwar period. In 1940, the second Vienna Award granted the Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the villages were held by Hungary until 1944. After Soviet occupation, the Romanian administration returned and the commune became officially part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the commune fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the province was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.
Demographics
The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 5,152 of which 97.44% or 5,020 are Hungarian.