Ciugud (; ) is a commune located in the central part of

Alba County Alba County () is a county (județ) of Romania located in the historic region of Transylvania. Its capital is Alba Iulia, a city with a population of 63,536. Name "Alba", meaning "white" in Latin and Romanian, is derived from the name of the ...

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. It is composed of six villages: Ciugud, Drâmbar (''Drombár''), Hăpria (''Oláhherepe''), Șeușa (''Sóspatak''), Teleac (''Újcsongvaitelep''), and Limba (''Dumbrava'' from 1960 to 2004; ''Lombfalva'').

Geography

The commune is situated on the

Transylvanian Plateau The Transylvanian Plateau (; ) is a plateau in central Romania. Description The plateau lies within and takes its name from the historical region of Transylvania, and is almost entirely surrounded by the Eastern Carpathians, Eastern, Southern ...

, on the left bank of the

Mureș River Mureș may refer to: * Mureș County, Romania * Mureș (river) in Romania and Hungary (''Maros'') * Mureș culture, a Bronze Age culture from Romania See also * Târgu Mureș, the capital of Mureș County * Ocna Mureș, a town in Alba Cou ...

, across from the county seat,

Alba Iulia Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș (river), Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a ...

. It borders Sântimbru and

Berghin Berghin (; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,672 (as of 2021) and is composed of four villages: Berghin, Ghirbom (''Oláhgorbó''), Henig (''Henningsdorf''; ''Henningfalva''), and Straja (''Őr ...

communes to the north,

Oarda de Jos Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a population of ...

village to the south, the city of Alba Iulia to the west, and Daia Română commune to the east. The administrative center of the commune is in Ciugud village, which is from the center of Alba Iulia, on county roads DJ 107C and DJ 107.

Demographics

At the census from 2011 there were 3,048 people living in this commune, of which 96.49% were ethnic

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. At the 2021 census, Ciugud had a population of 3,285; of those, 93.7% were Romanians.

Natives

* Nicolae Giosan (1921–1990), agricultural engineer and communist politician

Golf course

The Theodora Golf Club is located in Ciugud. Inaugurated in 2017, it is a par 6 course; with a length of , it is one of the longest golf courses in Europe.

References

External links

Alba Iulia National Museum of the Union 2011 - Ritual Vessel from the Teleac Hillfort-1

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