Petroșani
Sign in to savePetroșani (; Hungarian: Petrozsény; German: Petroschen) is a city in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania, with a population of 31,044 as of 2021. The city has been associated with mining since the 19th century.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- municipality
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Hunedoara
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- ROU HD Petrosani CoA.png
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Petrosani jud Hunedoara.png
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Hunedoara County
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Tiberiu Iacob-Ridzi
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–2028
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Romanian subdivision.elevation
- 431
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
- 195.56
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 330001
- Romanian subdivision.area_code
- (+40) 02 54
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Petroșani (; Hungarian: Petrozsény; German: Petroschen) is a city in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania, with a population of 31,044 as of 2021. The city has been associated with mining since the 19th century.
==History== "Pietros" means "stony, rocky" in Romanian. The city of Petroșani was founded in the 17th century (around 1640) with the name Petrozsény. In 1720, an Austrian cartographer mentions that the entire Jiu Valley was intensely populated and settlements could be seen from one end to the other.