Romania

The Roman city of Napoca, built over an old Dacian settlement, was named a municipality by Emperor Hadrian in A.D.124, and a Roman colony by Marcus Aurelius (A.D.161-180) and renamed “Castrum Clus” in A.D.173.

Under Hungarian rule from the 11th century, Germans were invited to settle in Transylvania and renamed it Klausenburg. In the 1500's the Magyars took control and changed its name to Kolozsvar. After World War I, when borders were redrawn and Transylvania became part of Romania, it was renamed Cluj. In 1974 Ceausescu added Napoca to the name in recognition of the city's Dacian forbears.

Today the city is an industrial, scientific, cultural, university and tourist center and the capital of the county. Cluj retains the architectural charm of its historical Hungarian buildings.

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