Romania

DEVA is the county capital (Hunedoara county) with more than 80,000 inhabitants (est. 2000) with mining, food, civil engineering and power industries, and a (private) University of Ecology and Tourism, founded in 1990.
 
Documentary evidence of the town's existence first appeared in 1269 AD . It became a Residential Town under a Duke (Voevode = Romanian Duke) in 1307 and later under the Voevode John Huniady (Iancu de Hunedoara, Ioannus Corvinus, Janos Huniady) became an important military and administrative centre. Partially destroyed by the Turks in 1550, was rebuilt and the fortress extended. In 1621 Count Gabriel Bethlen transformed and extended the Magna Curia Palace also known as the Bethlen Castle in the Renaissance style. Since 1882 it has housed the County Museum and houses one of the most important archaeological collections in Transylvania, with rich numismatic, ethnographic and natural science exhibits.

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