Teiuș

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Teiuș
three churches
Tövis
Coat of arms of Teiuș
Teiuș (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Coordinates : 46 ° 12 '  N , 23 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 12 '0 "  N , 23 ° 40' 48"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 247  m
Area : 44.56  km²
Residents : 6,695 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 150 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 515900
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : city
Structure : Four districts / cadastral communities: Beldiu , Căpud , Coșlariu Nou , Pețelca
Mayor : Mirel-Vasile Hălălai ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Clujului, no. 80
loc. Teiuș, jud. Alba, RO-515900
Website :

Teiuş [ te.'juʃ ] ( Hungarian Tövis = Dorn, German  Dreikirchen , Dornstadt , Dornen) is a Romanian city ​​in the Alba district in Transylvania .

Geographical location

The small town of Teiuș is located east of the Trascău Mountains in western Transylvania. On the lower reaches of the Geoagiu (also called Stremț ) - a right tributary of the Mureș ( Mieresch ) - on the Teiuș – Vințu de Jos railway line and on the European route 81 , the place is 16 kilometers north of the district capital Alba Iulia ( Karlsburg ) .

history

Teiuș was founded in 1296 and has several churches: a Roman Catholic from 1449, which was built for Johann Hunyadi and rebuilt in Gothic style in 1701–1704, and a church of the Uniate Catholic community from the 17th century.

population

In 1850, 2935 inhabitants lived in the area of ​​Teiuș. 2084 of them were Romanians , 586 Hungarians , 102 Roma , 23 Romanian Germans . 1977 the largest population was registered with 7718 and also that of the Romanians (6623). The highest number of Hungarians (1720) was determined in 1910, that of Germans (133) in 1890 and that of Roma (567) in 2002. Since the survey in 1880, Serbs (two in 1930; one each in 1977 and 1992), Ukrainians (one each in 1910 and 1977) and Slovaks (highest number 21 in 1900) were recorded in the area of ​​Teiuș . In 2002, 7,284 people lived in the Teiuș area. 6297 were Romanians, 567 were Roma, 414 were Hungarians and five were Germans.

traffic

Teiuș is of great importance for the Romanian Railway ( CFR ) because it forms an important connection point for the line from Cluj-Napoca ( Klausenburg ) or Arad via Sighișoara ( Schäßburg ) to Brașov ( Kronstadt ), then to Ploieşti and Bucharest .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)