Săcel, Harghita

Săcel Székelyandrásfalva
—  Commune  —
Location of Săcel, Harghita
Săcel Székelyandrásfalva Location of Săcel, Harghita
Coordinates: 46°18′0″N 25°56′0″E / 46.3°N 25.933333°E / 46.3; 25.933333
Country	Romania
County	Harghita County
Status	Commune
Government
– Mayor	Lajos Nagy (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)
Area
– Total	77.30 km2 (29.8 sq mi)
Population (2002)
– Total	1,320
– Density	17.10/km2 (44.3/sq mi)
Ethnicity
– Hungarians	68.18%
– Romanians	9.4%
– Gypsies	5.9%
Language
– Hungarian	69.62%
– Romanian	29.7%
– Gypsy	0.53%
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
– Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	537310
Area code(s)	+40 266

Săcel (Hungarian: Székelyandrásfalva, Hungarian pronunciation: [’seːkɛjɒndraːʃfɒlvɒ]) 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 five villages:

In Romanian	In Hungarian	Population(2002)	Ethnic majority
Săcel	Székelyandrásfalva	144	Romanians
Şoimuşu Mare	Nagysolymos	346	Hungarians
Şoimuşu Mic	Kissolymos	451	Hungarians
Uilac	Újlak	27	Romanians
Vidăcut	Hidegkút	352	Mixed[1]

History

The villages on 18th century Josephinische Landesaufnahme

The villages were part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. They belonged to Udvarhelyszék district until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when they fell within the Udvarhely County in the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, they became part of Romania and fell within Odorhei County during the interwar period. In 1940, the second Vienna Award granted the 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 a Hungarian (Székely) majority. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 1,320 of which 68.18% or 900 are Hungarian. The 2002 Census reported Protestantism being professed by the majority of the population, 34.24% of the total population being Reformed Protestants and 31.28% Unitarians, while 29.77% of the respondents were Eastern Orthodox.^[2] In the villages of Săcel (Székelyandrásfalva) and Uilac (Újlak) there is an absolute Romanian majority. As to Vidăcut (Hidegkút), in the hamlet Vidacutul Român (Székelyhidegkút) Romanians, while in Vidacutul Unguresc (Magyarhidegkút) Hungarians form the majority. Şoimuşu Mic (Kissolymos) and Şoimuşu Mare (Nagysolymos) have an absolute Hungarian majority.

References

1. ^ "Etnikai statisztikák" (in Hungarian). Árpád E. Varga. http://varga.adatbank.transindex.ro/index.php?tel=sz%E9kelyandr%E1sfalva&megye=0&x=0&y=0&pg=2. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
2. ^ Romanian Census 2002; retrieved on July 2, 2010