Beltiug is a commune

Communes of Romania

A commune is the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. There are 2686 communes in Romania. The commune is the rural subdivision of a county .There is no clear restriction on the population of a commune, even though when a commune...

 of 3,318 inhabitants situated in Satu Mare County

Satu Mare County

Satu Mare County is a county of Romania. The capital city is Satu Mare. Besides Romanians , Satu Mare features a significant ethnic minority of Hungarians .-Demographics:...

, 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 six villages:

In Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 / in Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

:

• Beltiug / Krasznabéltek
• Bolda / Alsóboldád
• Ghirişa / Géres
• Giungi / Gyöngy
• Răteşti / Szakasz
• Şandra / Krasznasándorfalu

Giungi

The original name of Giungi village was Perlu ("pearl"), first documented in 1215. The original settlers were Germans. The name was translated to Hungarian as "Gyöngy", and Romanians took it over as Giungi. It lies at 40 km away from Satu Mare. The Crasna River

Crasna River

The Crasna or Kraszna is the name of a river in northwestern Romania and northeastern Hungary.The Crasna is a tributary of the Tisza River. Its source is in Transylvania, Romania, near the village of Crasna. It flows through the Romanian counties Sălaj and Satu Mare and the Hungarian county...

crosses the village.
At the beginning of the 20th century a great number of villagers emigrated to the USA, most of them settled in Aurora, Illinois.

• Coordonates: 47.5667 lat.; 22.7833 long.
• Population: 203 (2002).

It has a Greek-Catholic and an Orthodox church; between the two churches, in the center of the village there is also one small shop.

External links

• bildegg.de