Odorheiu Secuiesc

Odorheiu Secuiesc is the second biggest municipality in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. In its short shape, it's also called Odorhei in Romanian and Udvarhely in Hungarian. The Hungarian call of the town Udvarhely means courtyard vicinity. The town, because the former seat of the Udvarhely comitatus, is one of the ancient centers of Székely Land. The first known reference to the metropolis became in a papal sign in of duties in 1334 while it became cited via its Hungarian name, a sacerdos de Oduorhel. Since 1615, while Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, reaffirmed the rights of the city,

the place has been called Székelyudvarhely. Udvarhely become the region of the primary meeting of Székelys in 1357. A fort became built within the metropolis in 1451. It was rebuilt and reinforced via John II Sigismund Zápolya in 1565, so as to manipulate the Székelys. Wallachian Prince Michael the Brave allied with the Szekelys and Habsburgs destroyed the citadel in 1599 all through his marketing campaign in Transylvania.