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Ocna Sibiului
Town in Sibiu, Romania From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ocna Sibiului (German: Salzburg; Hungarian: Vízakna) is a town in the centre of Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, central Romania, 10 km (6.2 mi) to the north-west of the county seat, Sibiu. The town administers a single village, Topârcea (Tschapertsch; Toporcsa).
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The first spa resort was established here in 1845, and since then Ocna Sibiului has earned a reputation thanks to its heliothermal lakes formed on the site of old salt mines that had collapsed.[3]
There are several salt lakes (former collapsed salt mines) on the salt massif.[4]
The temperate climate, aerosol-rich air, annual temperatures above the regional average, and recent renovations of the spa infrastructure have helped restore the town’s popularity as a health resort.[5][6]
Ocna Sibiului is also of archaeological interest: Bronze Age tools (dating from approximately 1900–800 BC) have been discovered in the area and are currently exhibited at the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu.[7]
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Demographics
At the 2011 census, the town had 3,372 inhabitants, of which 89.4% were Romanians and 9.7% Hungarians. At the 2021 census, Ocna Sibiului had a population of 3,434; of those, 77.34% were Romanians, 6.61% Hungarians, and 2.82% Roma.
Natives
- Júlia Bányai (1824 – 1883), freedom fighter in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- Nicolae Cristea (1834 – 1902), Orthodox priest, professor, journalist, and political activist
- Ierusalima Gligor (1929 – 2021), nun, stavrophore, and hegumen
- Emil Hossu (1941 – 2012), actor
- Lajos Takács (1908 – 1982), jurist and communist politician
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