Székely Land

Also known as Székelyföld, Szeklerland, Ţinutul Secuiesc

historical region in Transylvania

Key facts

Largest city: Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely)
Common languages: Hungarian , Romanian
Ethnic groups 2021: 57.63% Hungarians 35.71% Romanians 6.44% Roma 0.22% others
Religion 2011: 97–98% Christianity 41–43% Catholicism 28–30% Protestantism 26–28% Romanian Orthodoxy 1–2% other Christian 2–3% undeclared / , no religion
Total: 16,943 km (6,542 sq mi)
Estimate: 918,716
Currency: Romanian leu ( RON )
Time zone: UTC +2 ( EET )
Summer dst: UTC +3 ( EEST )
Date format: dd.mm.yyyy ( AD )
Calling code: +40
Iso 3166 code: RO

Article

The Székely Land or Szeklerland (Hungarian: Székelyföld, pronounced [ˈseːkɛjføld], Székely runes: 𐲥𐳋𐳓𐳉𐳗𐳌𐳞𐳖𐳇; Romanian: Ținutul Secuiesc and sometimes Secuimea; German: Szeklerland; Latin: Terra Siculorum) is a historic and ethnographic area in present-day Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians. Its cultural centre is the city of Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely), the largest settlement in the region.

Székelys (or Szeklers) live in the valleys and hills of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, corresponding mostly to the present-day Harghita, Covasna, and parts of Mureș counties in Romania.