Sfântu Gheorghe

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This article is about the city in Covasna County, Romania. There are five other localities called Sfântu Gheorghe in Romania, among them Sfântu Gheorghe, Tulcea.

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Sepsiszentgyörgy</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Location of Sfântu Gheorghe

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<tr class="mergedbottomrow"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: smaller; padding-bottom: 0.7em;">Coordinates: 45°51′49″N 25°47′15″E / 45.86361, 25.7875</th>

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               <th class="adr">Fişier:Flag of Romania.svg Romania

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               <th class="adr">Covasna County

</tr><tr class="mergedrow"> <th>Status <th>County capital </tr>

<tr class="mergedtoprow"> <td colspan="2">Government </td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th> - Mayor <td>Albert Álmos (from Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)</td> </tr>

<tr class="mergedtoprow"> <td colspan="2">Population (2002)</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedrow"> <th> - Total</th> <td>61.543</td> </tr> <tr class="mergedtoprow"> <th>Time zone</th> <td>EET (UTC+2) </tr> <tr class="mergedbottomrow"> <th style="white-space: nowrap;"> - Summer (DST)</th> <td>EEST (UTC+3)</td> </tr>

Website: http://www.sfantugheorghe.ro/

Sfântu Gheorghe (in Romanian) or Sepsiszentgyörgy (in Hungarian) is a municipality and city in the central Romanian region of Transylvania. It lies on the Olt River in a valley between the Baraolt and Bodoc Mountains. Sfântu Gheorghe is the capital of Covasna County. The villages of Chilieni / Kilyén and Coşeni / Szotyor are also administratively part of Sfântu Gheorghe Municipality.

Cuprins 1 Demographics 2 History 3 Sights 4 Economy

[modifică] Demographics

The majority of the city's inhabitants are Székely Hungarians. In the census of 2002, 46,178 (75%) of the city's 61,543 inhabitants classed themselves as ethnic Hungarians, 14,178 (23%) as Romanians, 932 as ethnic Roma, and 255 as "others."

[modifică] History

Sfântu Gheorghe is one of the oldest cities in Transylvania, the settlement first having been documented in 1332. The city takes it name from Saint George, the patron of the local church. Historically it was also known in German as Sankt Georgen.

While part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the city was an economic and administrative center for the Hungarian county of Háromszék, now Covasna and Braşov counties. In the second half of the 19th century, Sfântu Gheorghe saw the development of both a textile and a cigarette factory. It became part of the Kingdom of Romania following World War I.

Sfântu Gheorghe is one of the centres for the Székely people in the region known to them as Székelyföld, and is home to the Székely National Museum. The city hosts two market fairs each year.

[modifică] Sights

• Fortified Church (Romanian: Biserică Fortificată; Hungarian: Vártemplom) - constructed in the 14th century in the Gothic style
• State Archive, the former headquarters of the Hussar battalions
• City library constructed in 1832 as the seat of the county council
• Theater used from 1854-1866 as the city hall
• The market bazaar built in 1868, with a clock tower built in 1893

[modifică] Economy

The predominant industry in the city is the textile industry.