10-715: Bârzava can refer to the following places in Romania: Bârzava (Timiș) , a tributary of the Timiș Bârzava (Mureș) , a tributary of the Mureș Bârzava, Arad , a commune in Arad County Bârzava, a village in Frumoasa commune, Harghita County See also [ edit ] Bârzăvița River (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
20-473: A significant population of ethnic Romanians, numbering 64 of the village's 130 inhabitants. Cs%C3%ADksz%C3%A9k Csíkszék ( Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃiːkseːk] ) was one of the Székely seats in the historical Székely Land . It administered two sub-seats ( Hungarian : fiúszék , Latin: sedes filialis ), namely Gyergyószék and Kászonszék . It was divided on the natural borders of
30-493: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Frumoasa, Harghita Frumoasa ( Hungarian : Szépvíz or Csíkszépvíz , Hungarian pronunciation : [ˈtʃiːkseːpviːz] ) is a commune in Harghita County , Romania . It is composed of four villages: Bârzava ( Csíkborzsova ), Făgețel ( Bükkloka ), Frumoasa, and Nicolești ( Csíkszentmiklós ). The commune lies in
40-615: The Kingdom of Romania . During the interwar period, the commune became the seat of plasa Frumoasa in Ciuc County . In 1940, the Second Vienna Award granted Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the commune was held by Hungary until September 1944. The territory of Northern Transylvania remained under Soviet military administration until March 9, 1945, after which it became again part of Romania. Between 1952 and 1960,
50-524: The Székely Land , an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania . It is situated in the foothills of the Ciuc Mountains , at an altitude of 790 m (2,590 ft), on the banks of the river Frumoasa . The Frumoasa Dam is located on this river, forming a reservoir [ ro ] with a volume of 10.6 km (2.5 cu mi). Frumoasa is located in the eastern part of
60-680: The Bíró family. The Roman Catholic church was built in 1892. The village administratively belonged to Csíkszék , then, from 1876 until 1918 to the Csík County in the Kingdom of Hungary. In the aftermath of World War I and the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1918–1919, it passed under Romanian administration; after the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, like the rest of Transylvania, it became part of
70-524: The Hungarian toponym as Ciuc-Sepviz which was Romanianized to its current official name in 1919. According to tradition, the village's original name was Szépmező . According to Balázs Orbán , it was founded during the reign of László I as a community of border guards for the defense of the Ghimeș pass, on the eastern border of the Kingdom of Hungary . The Roman Catholic chapel was built before 1694 by
80-721: The commune fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region , between 1960 and 1968 the Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the region was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County. At the 2011 census , the commune had a population of 3,682; out of them, 94% were Hungarians , 2.3% were Romanians , and 1.7% were Roma . At the 2021 census , Frumoasa had a population of 3,581, of which 93.3% were Hungarians and 1.56% Romanians. For Armenian Catholics, see Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics of Romania . The village of Făgățel has
90-615: The county, 17 km (11 mi) northeast of the county seat, Miercurea Ciuc , on the border with Bacău County . It is traversed by the national road DN12A [ ro ] , which connects Miercurea Ciuc with Onești , Bacău County, crossing the Eastern Carpathians through the Ghimeș-Palanca Pass . The first written mention of the village is from 1567 as Zepwyz . In 1602 it was recorded as Szépviz ("beautiful water"). Its original Romanian name derived from
100-424: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bârzava&oldid=911674167 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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