Sovata

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Sovata Hungarian: Illyésmező German: Schwaden, Sowaten, Sovata, Sowata, Sowath, Sowatten
Village
Aerial photograph of Sovata and Lake Ursu
Coat of arms
Location of Sovata in Mureș County
Country	Romania
County	Mureş
Town	Sovata
First mentioned	1602
subordinated villages	List Căpeți Ilieși Săcădat
Government
• Mayor	Ferenc Péter (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)

Sovata în the Josephinian Map of Transylvania, 1769-73.

Sovata (Hungarian: Szováta}, German: Schwaden, Sowaten, Sovata, Sowata, Sowath, Sowatten) is a town in Mureş County, central Romania. The town administers three subordinated villages: Căpeți, Ilieși and Săcădat

History

Székely gate

Sovata is part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. The first data about Sovata are from 1578. By 1583 it was already a village.

For 42 years, from 1876 until 1918, the village belonged to the Maros-Torda County of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

Due to its salty lakes and warm water it became an increasingly popular health resort during the end of the 19th and the 20th century. It gained the status of town in 1952.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census the town had a population of 10,385 of which 89.4% were Hungarians, 8.5% Romanians and 2% Gypsies.

Demographic movement according to census data:

Geography

Sovata is situated between the Corund River and the valley of the Târnava Mică River. It can be reached from Târgu-Mureş, Miercurea-Ciuc and Odorheiu Secuiesc on the 13A main road and from Reghin on a connection road. Coordinates: 46°35'37.59"N / 25°4'31.96"E

Three villages are administered by the town: Căpeți, Ilieși and Săcădat. In 2004; the village of Sărăteni, formerly part of Sovata, broke away to form an independent commune.

Spa

The geological events in 1875 gave birth to the Bear Lake, which is unique in Europe, its water being helio-thermal and salty, with well-known therapeutic effects (for chronic gynecological symptoms, severe rheumatic pains, peripheral nervous system and post-accidental motor diseases).

There are four more salty lakes: Nut Lake, Black Lake, Red Lake and Green Lake. In the interwar period, Sovata became one of the most fashionable spas in the country, visited several times even by the Romanian Royal Family.

Spa on the Bear Lake

See also

• List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureş County)

External links

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Sovata

• Resort Sovata
• Sovata (Hungarian)
• Sovata accommodation and guide map