Baciu ( hu, Kisbács or ''Bács''; german: Botschendorf) is a commune in

Cluj County Cluj County (; german: Kreis Klausenburg, hu, Kolozs megye) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat ( ro, Oraș reședință de județ) is Cluj-Napoca (german: Klausenburg). Name In Hungarian, it is known as ''Kolozs megye' ...

, located in the region of

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the ...

, in the northwestern part of

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. Baciu lies a short distance from the county seat of

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Status , subdivision_name2 = County seat , settlement_type = City , ...

. It is composed of seven villages: Baciu, Corușu (''Nádaskóród''), Mera (''Méra''), Popești (''Nádaspapfalva''), Rădaia (''Andrásháza''), Săliștea Nouă (''Csonkatelep''), and Suceagu (''Szucság''). The commune is located in the central part of the county, in the region called

Țara Călatei Țara Călatei ( hu, Kalotaszeg), The Land of Călata, is a region in Transylvania, Romania. It is one of the many areas in Western Romania with a significant Hungarian population, and it is a stronghold of old Transylvanian Hungarian folk tradi ...

, just west of the county seat,

. The river Nadăș (a left tributary of the

Someșul Mic The Someșul Mic (''Little Someș'', Hungarian: ''Kis-Szamos'') is a river in north-western Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria ...

) flows through Baciu.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, 61.5% of the population of Baciu were ethnic

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, 29.0% were ethnic

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, and 6.4% were ethnic

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.Tab8. Populația stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune
2011 census results,

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, accessed 17 February 2020.

Natives

György Györffy György Györffy (26 September 1917 – 19 December 2000) was a Hungarian historian, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, MTA). Biography Györffy was born in Szucság (Suceagu, today part of Baciu, Romania), Hungary the son o ...

Notes

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