Feliceni
Felsőboldogfalva
Location in Harghita County
Location in Harghita County
Feliceni is located in Romania
Feliceni
Feliceni
Location in Romania
Coordinates: 46°16′N 25°16′E / 46.267°N 25.267°E / 46.267; 25.267
CountryRomania
CountyHarghita
Government
  Mayor (20202024) Levente Zsombori[1] (Ind.)
Area
78.91 km2 (30.47 sq mi)
Elevation
601 m (1,972 ft)
Population
 (2021-12-01)[2]
3,448
  Density44/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zoneEET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Postal code
537297
Area code+40 266
Vehicle reg.HR
Websitewww.felsoboldogfalva.ro

Feliceni (Hungarian: Felsőboldogfalva, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈfɛlʃøːboldoɡfɒlvɒ], meaning "Upper Village of the Blessed", referring to the Virgin Mary) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania, in the vicinity of Odorheiu Secuiesc. It forms part of the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.

Component villages

The commune is composed of eleven villages:

In RomanianIn Hungarian
AlexandrițaSándortelke
ArvățeniÁrvátfalva
CireșeniSükő
FeliceniFelsőboldogfalva
ForțeniFarcád
HoghiaHodgya
OțeniOcfalva
PolonițaSzékelylengyelfalva
TăureniBikafalva
TeleacTelekfalva
VăleniPatakfalva

History

The region on an 18th-century map

The villages of the commune historically belonged to the Székely seat of Udvarhelyszék and from 1876 to Udvarhely County in the Kingdom of Hungary. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, during the Hungarian–Romanian War (1918–1919), these localities passed under Romanian administration. By the terms of the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, they became part of the Kingdom of Romania.

As a result of the Second Vienna Award of August 1940, the region became part of Hungary until the Romanian Army and the Red Army entered the area in September–October 1944. After the Soviet occupation it came again under Romanian administration in March 1945, and became part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the villages formed part of the Hungarian Autonomous Province, then, of the Mureș-Hungarian Autonomous Province until it was abolished in 1968. Since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.

Demographics

At the 2011 census, the commune had a population of 3,297; out of them, 97% were Hungarian, 0.9% were Romanian, and 0.7% were Roma.[3]

Polonița

Polonița (Hungarian: Székelylengyelfalva, or colloquially Lengyelfalva, Hungarian pronunciation: [seːkɛjlɛnɟɛlfɒlvɒ], meaning "Poles' village") is located along the Polonița (Lengyelfalvi) Creek in a narrow valley. It had 319 inhabitants in 2002 (down from 503 in 1910), of whom 315 were Hungarians.

The village was first mentioned in 1505 as Lengenfalwa when a certain Balthasar was elected "seat judge" at Udvarhely. In 1533, the name was recorded as Lengyelfalva. In 1899, the ethnonym Székely was added to the Hungarian placename in order to distinguish the locality from another Lengyelfalva (now: Košická Polianka) of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The Romanian name derives from the Hungarian one and was originally used as Lenghelfalău which was later Romanianized by translation.[4]

Its Roman Catholic church was built in 1802 replacing the medieval church.

Alexandrița

Natives

References

  1. "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  2. "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
  3. Tab8. Populația stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune, 2011 census results, National Institute of Statistics, accessed 20 February 2020.
  4. János András Vistai. "Tekintő – Erdélyi Helynévkönyv" [Transylvanian Toponym Book 2nd volume at Lengyelfalva] (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-05-11."Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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