Tulgheș
Sign in to saveTulgheș ( or colloquially Tölgyes, Hungarian pronunciation: , meaning "place with oak trees in Gyergyó") is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in eastern Transylvania. The commune is composed of four villages: Hagota (Hágótő), Pintic (Péntekpataka), Recea (Récefalva), and Tulgheș.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- commune
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Harghita
- Romanian subdivision.name
- Tulgheș
- Romanian subdivision.other_name
- Gyergyótölgyes
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- Biserica de lemn din Tulghes1.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- Romanian Orthodox wooden church
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Tulghes jud Harghita.png
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Harghita County
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Marcel Vancu
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Romanian subdivision.term
- 2020–2024
- Romanian subdivision.elevation
- 650
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
- 244.47
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 537330
- Romanian subdivision.area_code
- +(40) 266
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Romania
- Official name
- Tulgheș
- Country
- Austrian Empire
- Located in
- Harghita County
- Capital
- Tulgheș
- Population
- 2941
- Area
- 244.470000
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- www.tulghes.ro
- Image
- Biserica de lemn din Tulghes1.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- contains settlement
- Recea
- postal code
- 537330
- native label
- Gyergyótölgyes
- phone number
- +40-266338107
- street address
- Str. Principală, nr. 339, com. Tulghes
- population by native language
- 747
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- Commons category
- Tulgheș commune, Harghita
- inception
- 1850-00-00
- historical region
- Transylvania
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Demography
- General information
- Transportation and important places in the area
- Geomorphological and climatic highlights
- Economic highlights
- Historical highlights
- Opportunities
- Touristic landmarks and memorials
- Natives
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Tulgheș ( or colloquially Tölgyes, Hungarian pronunciation: , meaning "place with oak trees in Gyergyó") is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in eastern Transylvania. The commune is composed of four villages: Hagota (Hágótő), Pintic (Péntekpataka), Recea (Récefalva), and Tulgheș.
== Demography == At the 2011 census, 70.8% of inhabitants were Romanians and 28.8% Hungarians (Székelys). At the 2002 census, 65.5% of inhabitants were Romanian Orthodox and 31.3% Roman Catholic. At the 2021 census, Tulgheș had a population of 2,941; of those, 70.59% were Romanians and 25.06% Hungarians.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tulgheș” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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