Covasna

Covasna is a town in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania, together with the localities of Chiurus and Covasna. The name comes from the phrase kvasny, which means eavened, fermented. Due to the truth that it is located in a place with volcanic hobby, the locality is famend for its mineral waters and mofetes. The first documentary testimony dates from 1567, but the archaeological discoveries show the presence of man right here from the Neolithic.

On the hill "Cetatea Zînelor", in the jap part of the city, are found the ruins, almost absolutely uncovered, of a incredible Dacian citadel, with stone partitions organized in terraces 1st century BC to 1st century AD. After excavations made several instances in this region, they found pottery, tools, weapons and a burial tomb. Based on the stratigraphy and the determined materials, it changed into possible to set up that the location became sporadically inhabited in the Bronze Age, extra said inside the first part of the Iron Age and regular in the course of the Dacian length.