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Luduș
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 Roman-catholic church of Luduș | ||
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 Location of Luduș in Mureș County | ||
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 Romania | |
| Counties of Romania |
 Mureş | |
| Town | Luduș | |
| First mentioned | 1377 | |
| Administratively subordinated villages | ||
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Cristian Ioan Moldovan (PNL) | |
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67.00 km2 (25.87 sq mi) | |
Luduș în the Josephinian Map of Transylvania, 1769-73.
Luduș (Former name: Ludoșul de Mureș; Hungarian: Marosludas; German: Gansdorf, Ludasch) is a town in Mureș County, central Transylvania, Romania. It administers six villages: Avrămești, Cioarga, Ciurgău, Fundătura, Gheja and Roșiori.
History[]
- 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de Ludas.
- 1377 - Mentioned in a transaction between two Hungarian nobles.
- 1930 - 5,085 inhabitants.
- 1960 - Luduș became a town.
- 1966 - 11,794 inhabitants.
- 2002 - 18,667 inhabitants.
Demographics[]
In 1910, the town had 4632 inhabitants. Ethnic composition of the town according to the 1910 census:
- Hungarians:3,116 (67.27%)
- Romanians:1,385 (29.9%) [1]
14,775 inhabitants. Ethnic composition of the town (2011 census):[2]
- Romanians (68.75%)
- Hungarians (24.1%)
- Gypsies (6.54%)
Demographic movement of the population according to the census data:
Notes[]
See also[]
- Mureș County
- List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureş County)
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- (Romanian) Luduş online
- (Hungarian) Datasheet of Ludus in Transylvanian Hungarian Database
- (English) (Hungarian) Bánffy-Castle
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