Ghindari ( hu, Makfalva,
Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Eicheldorf) is a commune in
Mureș County,
Romania. It lies in the
Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern
Transylvania.
Component villages
The commune is composed of five villages:
Trei Sate village, in its turn, is composed of three hamlets: Cioc (''Csókfalva''), Hotești (''Atosfalva''), and Ștefănești (''Székelyszentistván'').
History
Until 1918, the villages belonged to the
Maros-Torda County
Maros-Torda was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (eastern Transylvania) and has been administratively succeeded by county Mureș which consist of about half the territory of ...
of the
Kingdom of Hungary. After the
Hungarian–Romanian War of 1918–19 and the
Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the area became part of the
Romania. In 2004,
Chibed
Chibed ( hu, Kibéd, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania, composed of a single village, Chibed. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The village is famous for t ...
broke away to form an independent commune.
Demographics
The commune has an absolute
Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2011
census, it has a population of 3,250, of which 88.43% are Hungarian and 7.08%
Roma
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** Roma Courthouse
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.
See also
*
List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureș County)
This is a list of Hungarian names for towns and communes in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania.
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Mures County
Hungarian exonyms in Mures
Hungarian
Hungarian
Exonyms
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Gallery
File:Székelyabod tábla.JPG, Abud
File:Székelyabod 2009-1.JPG, Abud
File:Makfalva Wesselényi.JPG , Statue of Miklós Wesselényi
File:Makfalva 7.JPG, View of Ghindari village
File:Hármasfalu2.jpg, Trei Sate
References
External links
*
www.makfalva.eu (official website{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304013405/http://makfalva.eu/ , date=2009-03-04 )
Communes in Mureș County
Localities in Transylvania