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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Mediaș (; ; Transylvanian Saxon: Medwesch; ) is the second largest city in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania.
History
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The first signs of human communities in the area are thought to be from the middle Neolithic period.
The name of the city comes from the Hungarian word meggy (sour cherry). The Romanian name originates in the German version, which comes from the Hungarian name (Medgyes).
In the 13th century, the kings of Hungary invited German settlers known as Transylvanian Saxons to the area, who settled in the valley of the Târnava Mare River.
- According to tradition, the town was founded in 1146, thus being one of the oldest cities in Transylvania.
- 1200: Here would have lived around 100 inhabitants.
- 1267: The first document that mentions the city (as Mediesy) is dated 3 June 1267.
- 1283: Another reference appears in a document: Mediaș is listed as "villa Medgyes".
- 1318: The Hungarian king Charles Robert of Anjou offers complete rights for the Sibiu region to people living in Mediaș, Șeica Mare, and Biertan.
- 1359: Mediaș is called for the first time a city ("civitas"). The first seal of Mediaș was used in 1448.
- 1414: The St. Margaret church was the first church built in Mediaș. The first document that notes the presence of a hospital in the city is dated 1487.
- 1448: While preparing for his campaign against the Ottoman Empire, John Hunyadi passed through Mediaș.
- 1490-1534: The city is fortified by the people living in Mediaș and Șeica Mare, after a document signed in 1477 by the king Matthias Corvinus's office.
- 1517: Mediaș obtains the right to organise annual fairs.
- 1557: The population of Mediaș was hit by leprosy. The plague has also devastated the population of Mediaș several times in history, in 1586, 1601–1604, 1633, 1646, 1653, 1656–1658, 1660–1661 and 1717–1718.
- 1562: 34 guilds are registered.
- 1586: The first mention of a school in Mediaș ("Schola civitatis").
- 1611: Mediaș is plundered by the soldiers of Gabriel Báthory.
- 1705: The city is besieged for the last time in its history.
- 1771–1781: The Johann Sifft typography started its activity.
- 1822: The first gymnastics association in present-day Romania was established.
- 1826: The first Romanian church in Mediaș was raised, with great effort and dedication from the Greek-Catholic Bishop Ioan Bob. During the same period, Ioan Bob established the first Romanian school in the city.
- 1863: Public lighting of streets in Mediaș was established.
- 1871: The agricultural school was founded and the G. A. Reisenberger typography started its activity.
- 1872: The first train station was built. The current train station was built between 1963 and 1965.
- 1918–1919: The city of Mediaș came under Romanian administration as a result of the Union of Transylvania with Romania and the subsequent Hungarian–Romanian War.
- 1920: The city became part of the Kingdom of Romania as a result of the Treaty of Trianon. It fell within the Târnava-Mare County, and became the administrative center of plasa Mediaș.
- 1950: After the establishment of the Romanian People's Republic in 1947 and the subsequent administrative reform, the city became part of the , and from 1952, the Stalin Region (renamed Brașov Region in 1960).
- 1968: The old administrative division of județ was reinstated, and Mediaș became part of Sibiu County.
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