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Blaj

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Alba County, Romania
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About Blaj

Blaj is a town in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a populace of 20,630 inhabitants. The landmark of the town is the fact that it changed into the predominant religious and cultural center of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania. Blaj is first noted in 1271 as Villa Herbordi, after the deed of a Count Herbod. In 1313, the area passed to Herbod's son Blasius Cserei. Started as a hamlet for the twenty households of servants of the noble's court docket, it became offered metropolis popularity on May 19, 1737. Blaj is the main non secular and cultural center of Greek Catholics in Transylvania.

At 27 October 1687 begins the records of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic, history immediately connected to the history of the town Blaj. It all started at the quit of the treaty thru which Transylvania changed into getting into under the protection of Austria, renouncing the protection of the Turkish Empire. The first public faculty in Romanian became set up in Blaj in 1754. Blaj changed into the primary location to have Romanian written with Latin alphabet in place of Cyrillic wherein it had traditionally been written. Blaj turned into also a center.

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