Deda

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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Mureș
Coordinates :	46 ° 57 '  N , 24 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '51 "  N , 24 ° 52' 31"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	466  m
Area :	97.70  km²
Residents :	4,113 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	547205
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 65
License plate :	MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Deda, Bistra Mureșului , Filea , Pietriș
Mayor :	Lucreția Cadar ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 175 loc. Deda, jud. Mureș, RO-547205
Website :	www.primariadeda.ro
Others
City Festival :	annually in July, Festivalul Văii Mureșului

Deda ( German  Dade , Hungarian Déda ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place Deda is also known under the German names Deda , Dedals and Deden .

Geographical location

Location of the Deda municipality in Mureș County

Railway station in Deda around 1942

The municipality of Deda is located in the Miereschtal in the northern part of the Transylvanian Basin in the northern foothills of the Gurghiu Mountains (Munții Gurghiu) and the southern of the Călimani Mountains (Munții Călimani) . On the upper reaches of the Mureș (Mieresch) and the Drum național 15 , the place Deda is located 24 kilometers northeast of the city of Reghin (Saxon Rain) and about 57 kilometers northeast of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) . On the right bank of the Mureș, Deda is at the railway junction of the railway line from Târgu Mureș to Gheorgheni with the railway to Sărățel .

history

The place Deda was first mentioned in a document in 1393. On a hill east of the village, there are remains of a castle that was assigned to the Latène period . Archaeological finds on the area of ​​the community center have been dated back to the Neolithic Age . In the incorporated village of Pietriș (Hungarian : Maroskövesd ), a former castle is suspected on a hill, but has not been investigated further.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Régen Felső (Ober-Regen) district in Maros-Torda County , then to the historical Mureș District and, from 1950, today's Mureș District.

population

The population of the municipality of Deda developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,178	1,898	70	-	210
1930	5,388	4.211	698	21st	458
2002	4,332	4,001	68	-	263
2011	4.113	3,625	43	2	443

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants was registered in the area of ​​today's municipality in 1930. The highest number of Romanians (4,396) was in 1920, that of Magyars (766) in 1941, that of Roma (349) in 2011 and that of Romanian Germans (100) in 1910.

The main occupation of the population is agriculture, animal husbandry and wood processing.

Attractions

• Apart from the wooden gate of the school in the community center, which is a listed monument, there are no noteworthy sights in the community of Deda to be mentioned.

Personalities

• Vasile Netea (1912–1989), born in Deda, was a historian

Web links

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

• Deda at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved September 12, 2018 (Hungarian). 
3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Deda , accessed September 13, 2018 (Romanian).
5. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Pietriș accessed on September 13, 2018 (Romanian)
6. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
7. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
8. ↑ Florin Bengean: Information on Vasile Netea at astra.iasi.roedu.net accessed on September 12, 2018 (Romanian)