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Salistea (deprecated Cioara; Tschora German, Hungarian Alsócsóra ) is a town in Alba county in Transylvania, Romania.

Until 1965 was Cioara (literally crow), the official Romanian name of the place Salistea.

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the lower Salistea Forest, southwest of the Transylvanian Basin. Riverside Cioara - a left tributary of the Mureş ( Maros ) -, the place is on the county road (Drum Judetean ) DJ 705e, 5 kilometers south of the European Route 68, about 20 kilometers southwest of Sebes ( Mühlbach ) away. The county capital Alba Julia ( Charles Castle ) is located about 33 kilometers northeast of Salistea, the railway Arad - Alba Iulia 5 kilometers north of the stop of the eingemeindeten village tataria.

History

In the field of eingemeindeten village tataria - called by the locals Gura Luncii - were, according to reports by D. Berciu from the years 1943-1945, G. Téglás 1887 M. Roska, JM Ackner 1856 C. Gooss 1876, among others, many archaeological made findings that are associated with the Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age and the Roman period. In the field of the same village, the clay tablets of tataria were dated to the Neolithic period have been found.

The place was first mentioned Salistea 1458 under the name Warywpathak and 1733 Csora.

Population

At the official survey of 1850 1.784 inhabitants ( 1,608 Romanians, 139 Roma, 31 Hungarian and German 6 ) were registered on the territory of the present municipality. By 1941 the population had risen to 3,045 steadily; highest population number of Romanians ( 3,041 ) was registered. The highest number of Hungarians (52 ) was determined in 1900 and 1910, the Germans ( 11) 1880 and the Roma (139 ) 1850. In addition, in 2002, three residents called the Ukrainians.

2002 there were 2,374 people in the municipality ( 2,365 Romanians, five Roma, three Ukrainians and Hungarians ).

Attractions

  • The wooden church Sfintii Arhangheli Mihail şi Gavriil, built in 1798, is a listed building.
  • The House of Barcsay family ( the town hall of the church today ), built in the 18th century, is a historical monument.
  • The monastery Afteia, built in the 15th century.

Pictures

Church in Salistea

Interior of the church

Personalities

  • Sofronie de la Cioara, born in the first half of the 18th century in the village of Cioara, fought in 1760 for a cultural equality of the Romanian schools and the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Empire, which was pushed into the Greek-Catholic.
Hungarian language Johann Michael Ackner Albac Avram Iancu (Alba) Berghin Bistra (Alba) Blandiana Cenade Ciugud Ciuruleasa Jidvei Ohaba Pianu Unirea (Alba)
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