Ilia (Hunedoara)

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Ilia
Elienmarkt
Marosillye
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Ilia (Hunedoara) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Hunedoara
Coordinates : 45 ° 56 '  N , 22 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 '1 "  N , 22 ° 39' 32"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 185  m
Area : 91.38  km²
Residents : 3,662 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 40 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 337270
Telephone code : (+40) 02 54
License plate : HD
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Ilia, Bacea , Brâznic , Bretea Mureșană , Cuieș , Dumbrăvița , Săcămaș , Sârbi , Valea Lungă
Mayor : Marius Gabriel Omota ( PNL )
Postal address : Libertății street, no. 56
loc. Ilia, jud. Hunedoara, RO-337270

Ilia ( German  Elienmarkt , Hungarian Marosillye ) is a municipality in the Hunedoara district in Transylvania , Romania .

Ilia is also known by the German names Hielen and Illiendorf and the Hungarian Magyarillye .

Geographical location

Location of Ilia in Hunedoara County

The municipality of Ilia is located in southwestern Transylvania, southwest of the Transylvanian Ore Mountains ( Munții Metaliferi ) and north of the Poiana-Ruscă Mountains . Located on the right bank of the river Mureș ( Mieresch ), the place is on the European route 68 and the railway line Arad-Alba Iulia . From here there is a train connection to Lugoj in the Banat . The district capital Deva ( Diemrich ) is about 25 kilometers east of Ilia.

At Ilia, the E 68 crosses the Mureș River and about 3 kilometers southeast of it, ends - at Săcămaș - the European route 673 from Lugoj ( Timiș County ).

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1248. However, the history of settlement in the region goes back much further. According to A. Koch (1876), C. Gooss and others, a find in the area of ​​the municipality is assigned to the Neolithic ; it is in the Museum of Sibiu ( Hermannstadt ). At the beginning of the 16th century there was a castle complex - a center of feudal central power - of the Báthory family . István Báthori gave this to his private secretary Farkas Bethlen, the father of the future Prince Gábor Bethlen .

Ilia ( Marosillye ) was the administrative seat in the eponymous chair district of the historical Hunyad County (Hungarian Hunyad vármegye ).

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 3924 3605 184 15th 120
1900 5394 4724 550 108 12
1956 5149 4922 140 21st 66
1992 4198 4147 35 11 5
2002 4022 3970 33 5 14th

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants (5904) was determined in the area of ​​today's municipality in 1910. The highest population of Romanians (5300) was registered in 1966, that of Germans in 1900, Hungarians (762) in 1910 and that of Roma (205) in 1930. In addition, some residents identified themselves as Ukrainians (highest population of 4 in 1956 and 1966), Serbs (highest population of 4 in 1890) and, in almost every census, as Slovaks (highest population of 4 in 1930). The main occupations of the population are agriculture, wood processing, work in gravel mining on the Mureș River and in the quarry.

Attractions

  • The Bethlen Castle, rebuilt several times, was burned down by rebellious farmers in 1784 . Today part of it serves as a hospital and is a listed building.
  • The rural center of the village ( Ştefan cel Mare , Traian and Libertăţii streets ), built in the 18th and 19th centuries, is a listed building.
  • The wooden churches in the incorporated villages of Brâznic ( Cuvioasa Paraschiva , built in 1650, rebuilt in 1700) and in Bretea Mureșană ( Sf. Dumitru , built in 1653) are listed; by Bacea is not listed.

  • The Roman Catholic Church

  • The Orthodox Church

  • The Bethlen Castle

  • The Mureș near Ilia

Personalities

  • Gábor Bethlen (1580-1629) was, 1613-1629 Prince of Transylvania and took part from 1619 to 1626 on the side of the Protestants in the area of present-day Slovakia in the Thirty Years' War .
  • Pompiliu Teodor (1930–2001), cultural historian and member of the Romanian Academy .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  3. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Ilia, accessed November 13, 2010 (Romanian)
  5. ↑ Census, last updated November 2, 2008, p. 103 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.1 MB)
  6. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
  7. ↑ Pompiliu Teodor, on the website of the Romanian Academy, accessed on November 13, 2010 (Romanian)