Alba Iulia

Alba Iulia is the seat of Alba County within the west-central a part of Romania. Located on the Mureș River inside the ancient place of Transylvania, it has a populace of sixty three,536 as of 2011. Since the High Middle Ages, the town has been the seat of Transylvania's Roman Catholic diocese. Between 1541 and 1690 it was the capital of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and the latter Principality of Transylvania. At one point it also become a middle of Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Transylvania with suffragan to Vad diocese. Alba Iulia is traditionally crucial for Romanians, Hungarians, and Transylvanian Saxons. In December 2018, Alba Iulia turned into officially d Capital of the Great Union of Romania.

The present day city is located close to the website online of the essential Dacian political, financial and social centre of Apulon, which changed into mentioned via the historic Greek geographer Ptolemy and believed by using some archaeologists to be the Dacian fortifications on top of Piatra Craivii. After Dacia have become a province of the Roman Empire, the capital of Dacia Apulensis became set up here, and the city become called Apulum. Apulum turned into the largest city in Roman Dacia and became the seat of the XIII Gemina Legion. Apulum is the biggest castrum located in Romania, occupying 37.5 hectares.