Luduș Explained

Type:	town
County:	Mureș
Official Name:	Luduș
Other Name:	Marosludas
Leader Name:	Cristian Moldovan^[1]
Leader Party:	PSD
Term:	2020 - 2024
Coordinates:	46.4778°N 24.0961°W
Elevation:	274
Area Total:	67
Population Total:	auto
Postal Code:	545200
Area Code:	(+40) 02 65

Luduș (in Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan pronounced as /ˈluduʃ/; Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation: NaNm (-2,147,483,648feet), German: Ludasch) is a town in Transylvania, Romania in Mureș County, south-west from the county's capital, Târgu Mureș.

Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămești (Eckentelep), Cioarga (Csorga), Ciurgău (Csorgó), Fundătura (Mezőalbisitelep or Belsőtelep), Gheja (Marosgezse), and Roșiori (Andrássytelep).

History

1330 – First mentioned as Plehanus de Ludas.
1377 – Mentioned in a transaction between two Hungarian nobles.
1930 – 5,085 inhabitants.
1940 to 1944, Hungarians occupied the town. The Jewish population is murdered during the Luduș massacre from 5 to 13 September 1944.
1960 - Luduș became a town.
1966 - 11,794 inhabitants.
2002 - 17,497 inhabitants.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, Luduș had a population of 14,757. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 15,328; out of them, 65.9% were Romanian, 23.2% were Hungarian, and 6.3% were Roma.^[2]

In 1850, the town had 1,166 inhabitants; the ethnic composition of the town according to the 1850 census was: 1,065 (91.34%) Romanians and 34 (2.92%) Hungarians.^[3] In 1910, the town had 4,632 inhabitants; the ethnic composition of the town according to the 1910 census was: 3,116 (67.27%) Hungarians and 1,385 (29.9%) Romanians.^[4]

Demographic movement of the population according to the census data:

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Notable people

Dănuț Borbil (born 1973), professional Romanian arm-wrestler
Andreo Cseh (1895–1979), Hungarian/Dutch Roman Catholic priest
Cornel Gheți (born 1986), Romanian footballer
Pompeiu Hărășteanu (1935–2016), Romanian operatic bass/basso profondo
Ella Kovacs (born 1964), Romanian middle-distance runner
Sergiu Mândrean (born 1978), Romanian footballer
Horațiu Pungea (born 1986), Romanian rugby union player
László Sepsi (born 1987), Romanian footballer
Tara (von Neudorf) (born 1974), Romanian artist

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Results of the 2020 local elections . Central Electoral Bureau . 11 June 2021 . dmy-all.
http://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-2/ Tab8. Populaţia stabilă după etnie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune
http://www.kia.hu/konyvtar/erdely/erd2002.htm Varga E. Árpád:Statistics on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations of Transylvania, Census data, 1850–2002
http://www.kia.hu/konyvtar/erdely/erd2002.htm Varga E. Árpád:Statistics on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations of Transylvania, Census data, 1850–2002