Transylvanian Plain
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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...
: Câmpia Transilvaniei , 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....
: Mezőség) is an ethnogeographical area in Transylvania
Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
, 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...
, located between the Someş River
Someş River
The river Someş flows through Romania and Hungary.It rises from two headstreams, the Someşul Mare, in the Rodna Mountains in Bistriţa-Năsăud County and the Someşul Mic in the Apuseni Mountains of Cluj County...
and the Mureş River
Mures River
The Mureș is an approximately 761 km long river in Eastern Europe. It originates in the Hășmașu Mare Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania, and joins the Tisza river at Szeged in southeastern Hungary....
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The Transylvanian Plain can be divided into two parts: a hilly one in the North-East and a plain one in South and West.
Some important villages of Câmpia Transilvaniei are Sic
Sic, Cluj
Sic is a commune in Cluj County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Sic.-Demography:The commune has 2,754 inhabitants, of which 95.75% identify as ethnic Hungarians, 3.99% as ethnic Romanians, and 0.25% as Roma. By religion, 74.98% are Hungarian Reformed, 10% Seventh Day Adventists, 6.6%...
(a former salt-mining town), Mociu
Mociu
Mociu is a commune in Cluj County, Romania. It is composed of nine villages: Boteni, Chesău, Crişeni, Falca, Ghirişu Român, Mociu, Roşieni, Turmaşi and Zorenii de Vale.- Demographics :...
, Jucu
Jucu
Jucu is a commune in Cluj County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Gădălin , Juc-Herghelie , Jucu de Mijloc , commune centre Jucu de Sus and Vişea .-Economy:...
, Band
Band, Mures
Band is a commune in Mureş County, Romania, composed of twelve villages:*Band*Drăculea Bandului / Drekulyatelep*Fânațe / Fekete*Fânațele Mădărașului / Szénáságy*Iştan-Tău / Istentó...
, Suatu
Suatu
Suatu is a commune in Cluj County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Aruncuta, Dâmburile and Suatu.- Demographics :According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,945 people living in this commune. Of this population, 50.79% are ethnic Hungarians, 43.08% are ethnic...
and Unguraş
Unguras, Cluj
Unguraș is a commune in Cluj County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Batin, Daroţț, Sicfa, Unguraș and Valea Ungurașului.According to the 2002 census, the commune has 3,093 inhabitants, out of which 1,850 are Hungarian, 1,131 are Romanian, and 109 are Roma.-References:*Atlasul...
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