Hoghiz (; or ''Olthévíz'') is a commune in

Brașov County Brașov County () is a county (județ) of Transylvania, Romania. Its capital city is Brașov. The county incorporates within its boundaries most of the Medieval "lands" (''țări'') Burzenland and Făgăraș. Name In Hungarian language, Hungari ...

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. It is composed of six villages: Bogata Olteană (''Oltbogát''), Cuciulata (''Katscheloden''; ''Kucsuláta''), Dopca (''Dopich''; ''Datk''), Fântâna (''Olthidegkút''), Hoghiz and Lupșa (''Lupsa'').

Geography

The commune is situated on the

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, on the left bank of the

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. It is located in the northern part of the county, from the town of

Rupea Rupea (; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Räppes''; ; ) is a town in Brașov County in Transylvania, Romania. It administers one village, Fișer (''Schweischer''; ''Sövénység''). Both Fișer and Rupea have fortified churches. Older Romanian names for ...

and from the county seat,

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Demographics

At the 2011 census, 68.4% of inhabitants were

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, 27.8%

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and 3.6%

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. At the 2002 census, 66.4% were

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, 17.6% Unitarian, 8.4%

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, 3.1%

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and 2.8%

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Natives

Viorel Morariu Viorel Morariu (18 October 1931 – 23 May 2017) was a Romanian rugby union flanker. He was one of the best Romanian rugby players of his generation. His son, Octavian, was also a rugby player, and both served as presidents of the Romanian Rugby ...

(1931–2017), rugby union player * Aron Pumnul (1818–1866), philologist, teacher, and national and revolutionary activist

Villages

Cuciulata

The village of Cuciulata was first attested in a document of 1372 as ''Vila Roczolod''. It also appears as ''Kucsalota'' (1589), ''Kucstulata'' (1637) and ''Kociulata'' (1648). It is located on the south banks of

at the base of the

Perșani Mountains ZeidenHolbav

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, and is crossed by Lupșa Creek. The road DJ104 passes through the village center and DC20 road connects Cuciulata to Lupșa village. Archaeological excavations have shown the existence of a settlement in this place in the Bronze Age. The ruins of a 1st-century BC

Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...

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have also been discovered. Among the monuments in the village are a dating from 1700-1752 and a stone Orthodox church from 1784 to 1791.

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