Bilbor

Bilbor is the village of the commune with the identical name in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. The agreement is within the middle of a large coniferous woodland, being the richest settlement inside the county in phrases of mineral water springs. He has received the popularity of being the maximum unpolluted place in Romania. The first documentary testimony dates lower back to 1751 underneath the call of Belbor.

The foundation of the call is doubtful: in line with a few Romanian historians variants are mentioned: - BEL, BOR, - BEL, BOR. Over the years, the village is cited with special names: Belvor, Belbor 1788,1806, Belabora, Gyergyo-Belbor, Belbor, and after 1918 Bilbor . According to data amassed from folklore, the primary name changed into "Runcan's Village", the Runcan family being traders of merchants who traded in Moldova and who had been the founders of Bilbor. Oral subculture states that the muse stone discovered inside the altar of the timber church committed to St. Nicholas is engraved in Cyrillic with the call Runcan.