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Praid (, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Salzberg) is a commune in
Romanian Census 2002
retrieved on June 25, 2010
The commune's chief economic activity centers around the Praid salt mine that provides salt for both industrial and gastronomical use and attracts over 400,000 tourists every year.
www.parajd.lap.hu
Salt mine official site
Harghita County
Harghita (, hu, Hargita megye, ) is a county ( județ) in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc.
Demographics 2002 census
In 2002, Harghita County had a population of 326,222 and a populatio ...
, Romania
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. It lies in the Székely Land
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, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania
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, and is composed of six villages:
Demographics
The commune has an absolute Hungarian (Székely Székely may refer to:
*Székelys, Hungarian people from the historical region of Transylvania, Romania
**Székely Land, historic and ethnographic area in Transylvania, Romania
* Székely (village), a village in northeastern Hungary
*Székely (sur ...
) majority. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 6,502, of which 91.68% are Hungarian and 2.65% Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
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** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
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. The 2002 Census reported 69.36% of the total population belonging to the Protestant Hungarian Reformed Church, while Roman Catholicism
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is professed by 22.46% of the respondents.retrieved on June 25, 2010
Natives
* Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon (1884–1976), commanding general of the Royal Hungarian ArmyTourism
The commune's chief economic activity centers around the Praid salt mine that provides salt for both industrial and gastronomical use and attracts over 400,000 tourists every year.
See also
*Dacian fortress of Praid
It was a Dacian fortified town.
References
Dacian fortresses in Harghita County
Historic monuments in Harghita County
Ancient history of Transylvania
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External links
www.parajd.lap.hu
Salt mine official site
References
{{Communes of Harghita County Communes in Harghita County Localities in Transylvania Székely communities Mining communities in Romania