Aiton is a commune in Cluj County

Cluj County

Cluj ; is a county of Romania, in Transylvania, with the capital city at Cluj-Napoca.-Demographics:In 2007, it had a population of 692,316 and a population density of 104/km².*Romanians – 80%*Hungarians – 17.5%*Roma – 2.5%-Geography:...

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. It is composed of two villages, Aiton and Rediu.

Population

The population modified during time, as follows:

Census		Structura etnică
Year	Population	Romanians Romanians The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....	Hungarians	Germans Germans of Romania The Germans of Romania or Rumäniendeutsche were 760,000 strong in 1930. They are not a single group; thus, to understand their language, culture, and history, one must view them as independent groups:...	Roma Roma minority in Romania The Roma constitute one of the major minorities in Romania. According to the 2002 census, they number 535,140 people or 2.5% of the total population, being the second-largest ethnic minority in Romania after Hungarians...	Other minorities Minorities of Romania Officially, 10.5% of Romania's population is represented by minorities . The principal minorities in Romania are Hungarians and Roma people, with a declining German population and smaller numbers of Poles in Bucovina...
1850	2.438	1.901	443		85	9
1880	2.803	2.106	585	1		111
1890	3.452	2.690	720			42
1900	3.528	2.830	698			0
1910	3.934	3.183	693	4		54
1920	3.747	3.178	551			18
1930	4.132	3.504	586	1	28	13
1941	4.585	3.975	566	2		42
1956	3.754	3.274	479			1
1966	3.308	2.840	467	1		0
1977	2.772	2.404	368			0
1992	1.626	1.432	194			0
1992	1.626	1.431	195			0
2002	1.338	1.154	181		3	0

History

An ancient Roman

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

 milliarium has been discovered in Aiton in the 18th century (Milliarium of Aiton

Milliarium of Aiton

Milliarium of Aiton is an ancient Roman milestone discovered in the 1758 in Aiton commune, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Dating from 108 AD, shortly after the Roman conquest of Dacia, the milestone shows the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by demand of the Emperor Trajan. It...

). It milestone, dating from 108 AD, shortly after the Roman conquest of Dacia, shows the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca

Napoca

Napoca is a spider genus of the Salticidae family . Its single described species, Napoca insignis, is only found in Israel. It is one of seven genera comprising the Harmochireae clade within the Dendryphantinae subfamily....

, by demand of the Emperor Trajan

Trajan

Trajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against...

. It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet (P.M.X.) to Potaissa. This is the first epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in Roman Dacia

Roman Dacia

The Roman province of Dacia on the Balkans included the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, Banat and Oltenia, and temporarily Muntenia and southern Moldova, but not the nearby regions of Moesia...

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The complete inscription is: "Imp(erator)/ Caesar Nerva/ Traianus Aug(ustus)/ Germ(anicus) Dacicus/ pontif(ex) maxim(us)/ (sic) pot(estate) XII co(n)s(ul) V/ imp(erator) VI p(ater) p(atriae) fecit/ per coh(ortem) I Fl(aviam) Vlp(iam)/ Hisp(anam) mil(liariam) c(ivium) R(omanorum) eq(uitatam)/ a Potaissa Napo/cam / m(ilia) p(assuum) X". It was recorded in Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw light on all aspects of Roman life and history...

, vol.III, the 1627, Berlin, 1863.

This milliarium is an attestation of the road know to be built by Cohors I Hispanorum miliaria.

A copy of this milliarium was erected in June 1993 in front of the Turda

Turda

Turda is a city and Municipality in Cluj County, Romania, situated on the Arieş River.- Ancient times :The city was founded by Dacians under the name Patavissa or Potaissa...

Post Office (Dec. 1, 1918 Street). Another copy exists in the front of the Aiton School.