Cozma (Mureș)

Cozma
Kozmatelke

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Mureș

Coordinates :

46 ° 48 ' N , 24 ° 31' E Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '27 " N , 24 ° 31' 22" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

408 m

Area :

29.62 km²

Residents :

562 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

19 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

547170

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 65

License plate :

MS

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Cozma, Fânațele Socolului , Socolu de Câmpie , Valea Sasului , Valea Ungurului

Mayor :

Petru Ormenișan ( PNL )

Postal address :

Str. Principală nr. 41
loc. Cozma, jud. Mureș, RO-547170

Website :

primariacozma.ro

Cozma (outdated Cosma ; Hungarian Kozmatelke ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Cozma municipality in Mureș County

The municipality of Cozma is located in the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) , part of the Transylvanian Basin . Cozma is located 20 kilometers west of the town of Reghin (Saxon Rain) and about 45 kilometers north of the district capital Târgu Mureş (Neumarkt am Mieresch) on the Agriș brook and the district road (drum județean) DJ 162A .

history

The place Cozma was first mentioned in a document in 1231.

According to József Hampel and Márton Roska , an archaeological find on the area of the incorporated village of Socolu de Câmpie ( Mikldorf ) was assigned to the Bronze Age . Some of the items found are in a Budapest museum.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the place belonged to the chair district of Teke in the Cluj County, then to the historical Mureş District and from 1950 to the present Mureş District.

population

The population of the municipality of Cozma developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1,504	1,445	20th	-	39
1941	2,260	2.151	92	-	17th
2002	644	640	-	-	4th
2011	562	551	2	-	9

The highest number of inhabitants has been registered in the area of today's municipality since 1850 and that of the Magyars in 1941. The highest number of Romanians (2,227) was recorded in 1956, the Roma (34) in 1850 and that of Romanian Germans (5) in 1910.