Place:Avram Iancu, Bihor, Romania

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NameAvram Iancu
Alt namesKeményfoksource: Wikipedia
Regina Mariasource: Wikipedia
TypeCommune
Located inBihor, Romania


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Avram Iancu (until 1932 Chemenfoc, from 1932 to 1950 Regina Maria; ; ) is a commune in Bihor County, in Crișana, Romania. The commune is composed of three villages: Ant (Ant), Avram Iancu and Tămașda (Tamáshida). The majority of the population (96%) in Avram Iancu village is Romanian. Overall, the commune is 74.7% Romanian, 15.6% Roma and 9.6% Hungarian. The architecture of the commune is typical for a Romanian field village: the main street traverses the village, houses being equally distributed along it.

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History

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The first official documentation of human settlement in the area dates back to 1169. The document mentions a very small village called Villa Tamasd, which in fact is the village Tămaşda, a component of the today commune. In the early 1600 the establishment was destroyed being caught in a battle between the Turkish and Hungarian armies. In 1700 the establishment and its surroundings were transformed in a fiefdom for a Hungarian noble. The today's village of Avram Iancu was founded, in the early 1900, by the Romanian colonists which came from the eastern region of Bihor county. They received here land from the King Ferdinand I of Romania the village being named Regina Maria after Ferdinand's wife Queen Marie. In 1950, under the Communist regime, it was renamed after the 1848 Revolution Romanian hero Avram Iancu.

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