Mugeni

Component villages

The commune is composed of eight villages:

In 2004, the villages of Porumbenii Mari and Porumbenii Mici formed the commune of Porumbeni (Nagygalambfalva). The village of Betești (Betfalva) was transferred to the town of Cristuru Secuiesc that year.

History

The villages forming the present-day commune were part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. They belonged to Csíkszék district until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when they fell within the Csík County in the Kingdom of Hungary. In the aftermath of World War I and the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1918–1919, it passed under Romanian administration; after the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, like the rest of Transylvania, it became part of the Kingdom of Romania. During the interwar period, the locality fell within plasa Odorhei of Odorhei County. In 1940, the Second Vienna Award granted Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the village was held by Hungary until 1944. After Soviet occupation, the Romanian administration returned and the village became officially part of Romania in March 1945. Between 1952 and 1960, the commune fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the region was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Hungarian (Székely) majority. According to the 2002 census, it had a population of 3,460, of which 98.82% were Hungarians.{{cite web|url= http://varga.adatbank.transindex.ro/index.php?tel=b%F6g%F6z&megye=0&x=0&y=0&pg=2

Notable people

• Imre Palló (1891–1978), leading baritone at the Budapest State Opera
• Lajos Gidófalvy (1901–1945), military officer, antifascist activist
• János Kardalus (1935–2006), ethnographer

Gallery

File:Josephinische Landaufnahme pg177.jpg|Josephinische Landaufnahme, 1769-1773 File:Josephinische Landaufnahme pg193.jpg|Josephinische Landaufnahme, 1769-1773

References

References

1. "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau.
2. János András Vistai. "Tekintő – Erdélyi Helynévkönyv".
3. (31 May 2023). "Populația rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021". [[National Institute of Statistics (Romania).