Călărași (Cluj)

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Călărași (Cluj) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Cluj
Coordinates : 46 ° 29 '  N , 23 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '7 "  N , 23 ° 51' 20"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 367  m
Area : 37.9  km²
Residents : 2,021 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 53 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 407130
Telephone code : (+40) 02 64
License plate : CJ
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Călărași, Bogata , Călărași-Gară
Mayor : Ioan Vasile Racolța ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 316
loc. Călărași, jud. Cluj, RO-407130

Călărași (outdated Hărastăș ; German  Waldern , Hungarian Harasztos ) is a municipality in Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Călărași in Cluj County

The municipality of Călărași is located in the west of the Transylvanian Basin in the southeast of the Cluj County. The place Călărași is located on the Grindu brook - a right tributary of the Mureș - on the district road (Drum județean) DJ 161B and the Cluj-Napoca – Războieni railway about 12 kilometers south of the city of Turda (Thorenburg) and the Romanian A3 motorway . The district capital Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) is located about 45 kilometers northwest of Călărași.

The air base 71 "General Emanoil Ionescu" of the Romanian air force is located near the incorporated village of Călărași-Gară .

history

The place Călărași was first mentioned in 1291. According to C. Gooss, Grigore Tocilescu and Márton Roska, archaeological finds on the site can be dated to the late Bronze Age . According to Gabor Téglás, there was a Roman settlement northwest of Călărași and, according to JM Ackner , B. Orban and C. Gooss, a Roman road that led from Apulum to Potaissa .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Felvinc chair district in the Torda-Aranyos County , then to the historical Turda district and from 1950 to the present-day Cluj district.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1,389 452 813 - 124
1941 2,043 762 1,193 1 87
1977 3,036 1,790 1,217 7th 22nd
2002 2,587 1,758 825 1 3
2011 2,021 1,301 659 - 61 (8 Roma)

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants in the area of ​​today's municipality was determined in 1977, at the same time that of Romanians and Romanian Germans. The highest population of the Magyars (1265) was registered in 1966 and that of the Roma (76) in 1930.

Web links

Commons : Călărași  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ^ Karl Gottlieb von Windisch: Geography of the Grand Duchy of Transylvania , Pressburg 1790
  3. ↑ Information on the Romanian Air Base 71 from roaf.ro accessed on July 29, 2017 (Romanian)
  4. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  5. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Călărași , accessed July 29, 2017 (Romanian).
  6. ↑ Census, last updated November 2, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 525 kB)