Rimetea
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Rimetea (until 1925 Trascău; ; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colțești (formerly Sângeorzul Trascăului; Torockószentgyörgy; Sankt Georgen) and Rimetea. A former mining town, today it is known as the location of the Piatra Secuiului (Hungarian: Székelykő, lit. "Rock of the Szeklers") mountain.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- commune
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Alba
- Romanian subdivision.official_name
- Rimetea
- Romanian subdivision.other_name
- Torockó
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- Rimetea.JPG
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- View of Rimetea from Piatra Secuiului
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Rimetea jud Alba.png
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Alba County
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Szilárd-Levente Deák-Székely
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- UDMR
- Romanian subdivision.term
- 2020–2024
- Romanian subdivision.elevation
- 678
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
- 57.37
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 517610
- Romanian subdivision.area_code
- (+40) 02 58
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- Geography
- Etymology
- History
- Antiquity and Roman Period
- Demographics
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Rimetea (until 1925 Trascău; ; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colțești (formerly Sângeorzul Trascăului; Torockószentgyörgy; Sankt Georgen) and Rimetea. A former mining town, today it is known as the location of the Piatra Secuiului (Hungarian: Székelykő, lit. "Rock of the Szeklers") mountain.
As of 2011, Rimetea had a majority Hungarian population, at 85%. The village has a strong cultural significance for Hungarians and Transylvanian-Hungarians, and is home to a Szekler ethnographic museum. In 1999, the village was given the Europa Nostra award.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rimetea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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