Salatig

Salatig is the village of the commune with the same call in Salaj County, Transylvania, Romania. The elders of the village tell that, in ancient instances, near the region where nowadays is the buildup lake at the Andrei valley, there was a village, referred to as Sandra. Being attacked by way of the Tartars, the inhabitants of the village fled to the nearby forests, separating themselves in two elements. In time, having to live inside the forest, each group of fugitives fashioned new villages, one of them being the village of Salatig and the other being the village of Mineu.

The identical story additionally says that in order now not to depart the church bells to the pagans, they had been thrown into a nicely, and those - at the night of a sure vacation - they could hear how they beat. Academician Pastefan Pascu, in his paintings "Transylvania Voivodeship", mentions the existence of a peasant fortress on the floor inside the city of Salatig, in the course of the Middle Ages. The financial system of the settlement is predominantly agrarian, the cultivation of the land and the elevating of animals being the fundamental interest of the majority of the inhabitants.