Mugeni

Mugeni Bögöz
—  Commune  —
The Reformed church
Location of Mugeni
Mugeni Bögöz Location of Mugeni
Coordinates: 46°15′0″N 25°13′0″E / 46.25°N 25.216667°E / 46.25; 25.216667Coordinates: 46°15′0″N 25°13′0″E / 46.25°N 25.216667°E / 46.25; 25.216667
Country	Romania
County	Harghita County
Status	Commune
Government
– Mayor	Márton Farkas (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)
Area
– Total	65.30 km2 (25.2 sq mi)
Population (2004)
– Total	3,455
– Density	52.90/km2 (137/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
– Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	537205
Area code(s)	+40 266

Mugeni (Hungarian: Bögöz, Hungarian pronunciation: [’Bøɡøz]) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.

Component villages

The commune is composed of eight villages:

In Romanian	In Hungarian	First recorded	Pop.(2002)
Aluniş	Székelymagyaros	In 1566 as Mogijoros	143
Beta	Béta	In 1566 as Beta	304
Dejuţiu	Décsfalva	In 1566 as Dechfalva	200
Dobeni	Székelydobó	In 1334 as Dobov	587
Lutiţa	Agyagfalva	In 1506 as Agyagfalva	760
Mătişeni	Mátisfalva	In 1567 as Mattijwsffalwa	128
Mugeni	Bögöz	In 1333 as Bugus	1042
Tăietura	Vágás	In 1334 as Voygias	296[1]

In 2004, the villages of Porumbenii Mari and Porumbenii Mici formed the commune of Porumbeni (Nagygalambfalva). The village of Beteşti (Betfalva) was transferred to the town of Cristuru Secuiesc that year.

History

The villages forming the present-day commune were part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. They belonged to Csíkszék district until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when they fell within the Csík County in the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, they became part of Romania and fell within Ciuc County during the interwar period. In 1940, the second Vienna Award granted Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the villages were held by Hungary until 1944. After Soviet occupation, the Romanian administration returned and the commune became officially part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the commune fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureş-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the province was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Hungarian (Székely) majority. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 5,869 of which 98.82% or 5,800 are Hungarian. ^[2]

Notable people

• Imre Palló (1891 - 1978): leading baritone at the Budapest State Opera
• Lajos Gidófalvy (1901 - 1945): military officer, antifascist activist
• János Kardalus (1935 - 2006): ethnographer

External links

• Bögöz Church pictures by András Szász
• Touristic and host guide in Székelyudvarhely and its region
• Mugeni (Bögöz)
• Roman Catholic Parish

Gallery

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  Josephinische Landaufnahme, 1769-1773

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  Josephinische Landaufnahme, 1769-1773

References

1. ^ János András Vistai. "Tekintő – Erdélyi Helynévkönyv". Transylvanian Toponym Book
2. ^ "Etnikai statisztikák" (in Hungarian). Árpád E. Varga. http://varga.adatbank.transindex.ro/index.php?tel=b%F6g%F6z&megye=0&x=0&y=0&pg=2. Retrieved 2010-05-20.