Miercurea Nirajului ( hu, Nyárádszereda ) is a town in

Mureș County Mureș County (, ro, Județul Mures, hu, Maros megye) is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș. The county was established in 1968, after the administrative ...

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. It lies in the

Székely Land The Székely Land or Szeklerland ( hu, Székelyföld, ; ro, Ținutul Secuiesc and sometimes ; german: Szeklerland; la, Terra Siculorum) is a historic and ethnographic area in Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians. I ...

, an ethno-cultural region in eastern

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. The following seven villages are administered by the town: * Beu / Székelybő * Dumitreștii / Demeterfalva * Laureni / Kisszentlőrinc * Moșuni / Székelymoson * Șardu Nirajului / Székelysárd * Tâmpa / Székelytompa * Veța / Vece The town is the site of the Miercurea Nirajului gas field.

History

The town is part of the

region of the historical

province. Its first written mention is from 1493 as ''Oppidum Zereda''. István Bocskay was elected here as prince of Transylvania in 1604. Until 1918, the town belonged to the Maros-Torda County of the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

. After the

Hungarian–Romanian War The Hungarian–Romanian War was fought between Hungary and Romania from 13 November 1918 to 3 August 1919. The conflict had a complex background, with often contradictory motivations for the parties involved. The Allies of World War I intended ...

of 1918–19 and the

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It forma ...

of 1920, it became part of

Demographics

The commune has a Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2011

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, it has a population of 5,554 of which 83.3% are Hungarian, 10.4%

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym '' Vlachs'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Romanian culture and ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2011 Roman ...

, and 6.3%

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.Populația stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune
National Institute of Statistics; accessed August 26, 2015

Natives

* Zoltan Lunka

References

External links

{{Mureș County Populated places in Mureș County Localities in Transylvania Towns in Romania