Atid

Atid (Hungarian: Etéd, pronounced [ˈɛteːd] (listen)) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.

This article is about the commune. For the political party, see Atid (political party).

Atid Etéd
Commune
Location in Harghita County
Atid Location in Romania
Coordinates: 46°27′0″N 25°3′0″E
Country	Romania
County	Harghita
Government
• Mayor	László Szőcs[1] (UDMR)
Area	140.28 km^2 (54.16 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]	2,705
• Density	19/km^2 (50/sq mi)
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Postal code	537005
Area code	+40 266
Vehicle reg.	HR
Website	www.atid.ro

Component villages

The commune is composed of five villages:

In Romanian	In Hungarian
Atid	Etéd Listen
Crișeni	Kőrispatak Listen
Cușmed	Küsmöd Listen
Inlăceni	Énlaka Listen
Șiclod	Siklód Listen

History

From ancient times the area was populated by Dacians. After the Roman conquest of Dacia, the Romans imposed their control in the area by constructing a fort known as Praetoria Augusta in Inlăceni village. The fort was discovered in 1858.

18th century map

The villages were historically part of the Székely Land region of Transylvania province. They belonged to Udvarhely district until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when they fell within 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 Northern Transylvania to Hungary, which held it 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 Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the province was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.

The Reformed church was built in 1802, on the site of a 17th-century church destroyed in the great fire of 8 September 1792. The Roman Catholic parish church was built in 1876 in honor of St. Michael. Its tower was completed in 1889. The village used to be famous for its weekly fairs.

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 2,837 of which 98.37% or 2,791 are Hungarian.[3][4]

Villages

Inlăceni

Inlăceni (Hungarian: Énlaka, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈeːnlɒkɒ]) had 228 inhabitants in 1992, all of them Székely Hungarians. As in the village's vicinity, most inhabitants belong to the Unitarian Church of Transylvania.[5]

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  Unitarian church
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  Unitarian church interior
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  Unitarian church interior
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  Székely runes

References

1. (in Romanian) alegeri.rv - Alegeri locale 2012 - Rezultate alegeri Primăria Atid, judeţul Harghita Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved on March 25 2013
2. "Populaţia stabilă pe judeţe, municipii, oraşe şi localităti componenete la RPL_2011" (in Romanian). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-06. Retrieved 2010-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. "Etnikai statisztikák" (in Hungarian). Árpád E. Varga. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
5. Árpád E. Varga: Ethnic statistics