Halmeu ( hu, Halmi, ; yi, האַַלמין) is a
commune of 4,845 inhabitants situated in
Satu Mare County
Satu Mare County ( ro, Județul Satu Mare, ) is a county (județ) of Romania, on the border with Hungary and Ukraine. The capital city is Satu Mare.
Name
In Hungarian, it is known as ''Szatmár megye'', in German as ''Kreis Sathmar'', in Ukrain ...
,
Romania
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. It is composed of five villages:
Until
World War II
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, the village was home to a Jewish community, which numbered 479 souls in 1877. The commune included two other villages until 2005, when they were split off to form
Porumbeşti Commune.
Demographics
In 1910, 97.6% reported Hungarian as their primary language. The religious make-up was 1196 Calvinists (34.6%), 1061 Jewish (30.7%) and 613 Roman Catholic (17.7%).
Ethnic groups (2011 census):
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Romanians
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: 57%
*
Hungarians
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: 36%
*
Roma
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: 3%
57% had
Romanian
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as first language, and 39%
Hungarian.
Tab10. Populaţia stabilă după limba maternă – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune
2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică
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, accessed 10 March 2020.
References
Memorial book to the Communities of Halmin-Turt
(in Hebrew)
Communes in Satu Mare County
Romania–Ukraine border crossings
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