Ort Im Kreis Covasna - Comand U, Baraolt, Intorsura Buz Ului, Sfantu Gheorghe, Covasna, Targu Secuiesc (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Sfantu Gheorghe (Hungarian Sepsiszentgyorgy or Szentgyorgy, Hungarian ponounciation: Yiddish: ) is a municipality and capital city of Covasna County which also comprises the villages of Chilieni/Kilyen and Co eni/Szotyor . Located in the central part of Romania, historical region of Transylvania, it lies on the Olt River in a valley between the Baraolt (Barot) and Bodoc (Bodok) Mountains. Its Romanian name is also spelled Sfintu Gheorghe. The majority of the city's inhabitants are Szekely 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." Sfantu 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. The "sepsi" prefix (sebesi sepsi, meaning "of Sebes") refers to the area which the ancestors of the local Szekely population had inhabited before settling to the area of the town. The previous area of their settlement was around the town of "Sebes" (now: Sebe ) which later became populated mainly by Transylvanian Saxons. While part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the city was the economic and administrative center of the Hungarian county of Haromszek, which spanned the present-day Covasna (Kovaszna) County and parts of Bra ov (Brasso) County. In the second half of the 19th century, Sepsiszentgyorgy witnessed the development of light industry, namely a textile and a cigarette factory was built. It became part of the Kingdom of Romania following the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, after the end of World War I. After the Second Vienna Award in 1940 the city came under Hungarian control for four years. At the end of the Second World War the Paris Peace Treaties reaffirmed the city ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de