Ungra (
German
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: ''Galt'';
Hungarian: ''Ugra'') is a commune in
Brașov County
Brașov County () is a county (județ) of Transylvania, Romania. Its capital city is Brașov. The county incorporates within its boundaries most of the Medieval "lands" (''țări'') Burzenland and Făgăraș.
Name
In Hungarian language, Hungari ...
,
Transylvania
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,
Romania
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. It is composed of two villages, Dăișoara (''Dahl''; ''Longodár'') and Ungra.
Ungra is located in the northern part of the county, at from
Rupea
Rupea (; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Räppes''; ; ) is a town in Brașov County in Transylvania, Romania. It administers one village, Fișer (''Schweischer''; ''Sövénység''). Both Fișer and Rupea have fortified churches. Older Romanian names for ...
and from the county seat,
Brașov
Brașov (, , ; , also ''Brasau''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrative centre) of Brașov County.
According to the 2021 Romanian census, ...
. It sits on the right bank on the river
Olt, not far from where the
Homorod and Dăișoara rivers flow into it.
In Ungra there is a medieval 13th century
Transylvanian Saxon
The Transylvanian Saxons (; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjer Såksen'' or simply ''Soxen'', singularly ''Sox'' or ''Soax''; Transylvanian Landler: ''Soxn'' or ''Soxisch''; ; seldom ''sași ardeleni/transilvăneni/transilvani''; ) are a people ...
church and many old houses.
At the
2011 census, 88.4% of the 1,949 inhabitants were
Romanians
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, 8.4%
Roma
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, 1.7%
Germans
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, and 1.5%
Hungarians
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. At the
2021 census, Ungra had a population of 2,009; of those, 70.18% were Romanians, 15.18% Roma, and 1.1% Germans.
See also
*
Castra of Hoghiz
The castra of Hoghiz was a castra, fort in the Roman province of Roman Dacia, Dacia. The fort was built in the 2nd century AD, on the left bank of the Olt River, at a place where a Dacians, Dacian settlement existing already in the 2nd ...
References
Communes in Brașov County
Localities in Transylvania
Romani communities in Romania
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