Borsec
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Borsec (, ) is a town in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. The town and the surrounding areas are well known for their spas and mineral waters. It has a population of 2,585, with a majority of ethnic Hungarians (more specifically Szeklers).
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- town
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Harghita
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Harghita County
- Romanian subdivision.official_name
- Borsec
- Romanian subdivision.other_name
- Borszék
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- ROU_HR_Borsec_CoA.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Borsec jud Harghita.png
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- 057 wiki 6-os forras.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- József Mik
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–2028
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- UDMR
- Romanian subdivision.elevation
- 900
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
- 96
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 535300
- Romanian subdivision.area_code
- (+40) 02 66
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Mineral water springs – the main resource of Borsec
- Indications of treatment (hydromineral, peloid, balneoclimatic)
- Name
- Tourism
- Demographics
- Exports
- References
- External links
Borsec (, ) is a town in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. The town and the surrounding areas are well known for their spas and mineral waters. It has a population of 2,585, with a majority of ethnic Hungarians (more specifically Szeklers).
==History== The town was historically part of the Székely Land area of Transylvania. Administratively, it belonged to Csíkszék until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when it fell within the Csík County in Austria-Hungary. After the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919 and the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became part of the Kingdom of Romania and fell within Ciuc County during the interwar period. In 1940, the Second Vienna Award granted Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the settlement was held by Hungary until October 1944. After Soviet occupation, the Romanian administration returned in March 1945. Between 1952 and 1960, the town fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borsec” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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