Cehu Silvaniei

Cehu Silvaniei is a metropolis in Salaj County, Transylvania, Romania. Four villages are administered with the aid of the city: Horoatu Cehului, Motis, Nadis and Ulciug. The first written point out of the city dates from 1319 below the call Cheevar. In 1405, the town became stated below the name Chehy. The Hungarian call of the town mentioned a stand of Czech foundation. The metropolis changed into till 1918 part of the Kingdom of Hungary and specially of the Principality of Transylvania.

In 1529, the voivod Istvan Bathory granted the city the right to control itself. After the dissolution of the principality of Transylvania in 1867 and its direct integration into the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a part of Hungary, the metropolis is hooked up to Szilagy County in 1876. In 1918, during the disintegration of the empire at the cease of the First World War, the metropolis have become a part of the Kingdom of Romania. From 1940 to 1944 it become annexed by using Hungary due to the Second Vienna Award. In May 1944, its Jewish community turned into exterminated through the Nazis at some stage in numerous deportations to Auschwitz. At the give up of the Second World War, the metropolis became integrated with the aid of Romania again.