Marghita

Marghita is a municipality in Bihor County, Romania. It administers two villages, Cheț and Ghenetea and is 56km north-east of Oradea. The name appears to be derived from the call Margit, Saint Margaret the customer of a neighborhood church. The first time it was utilized in a document was in 1216. In the 14th century, it has become a feudal retaining of the Hungarian landlord. In 1376 king Louis I of Hungary gave to Marghita the right of organizing a honest and it advanced within the subsequent centuries as a marketplace town. There have been several peasant revolts in opposition to the feudal machine affecting Marghita in 1467 and 1514.

At the beginning of the 14th century, it have become, collectively with the entire of Bihor county and Hungary, an Ottoman province. At the 2011 census, Marghita had a population of 15,134. According to the census, fifty one.7% of inhabitants are Romanians, 44.1% Hungarians, 3.5% Roma and 0.Five% Slovaks.