Sohodol

Sohodol (Hungarian Aranyosszohodol ) is a town in Alba county in Transylvania, Romania.

Geographical location

The municipality is located Sohodol with its 31 villages and hamlets in the southwest of the country moaning, between the foothills of the Bihor ( Munţii Bihorului ) and the Transylvanian Erzgebirge ( Munţii Metaliferi ). At the same flow Sohodol - a right tributary of Aries - the place is located on the county road (Drum Judetean ) DJ 750A, 5 kilometers southwest of Câmpeni ( Topesdorf ); the county capital Alba Iulia ( Charles Castle ) is located approximately 86 kilometers southeast.

History

On the territory of the municipality - in the caves Mare Lucia and Lucia Mica - were after M. Roska, J. Hampel (1898 ) and K. Herepey, made ​​findings, which point in the Early Bronze Age to the Paleolithic.

The place Sohodol was first mentioned in records in 1805 under the Hungarian name Szohodol.

Population

The population of the municipality is as follows:

The highest population of the church today - and at the same time the Romanians - in 1930 determined. The highest population of Germans ( 6) in 1880, the Hungarians (35 ) 1910 and the registered Roma 1966. In addition, in 2002 a resident called the Ukrainians.

Attractions

• In the surroundings of the village are numerous tourist destinations in the Bihor and Transylvanian Erzgebirge.