Santana-de-Mures

Santana de Mures is a commune in Mures County, Romania, composed of 4 villages. The Santana de Mures-Chernyakhov subculture which flourished between the second and 5th centuries AD in Eastern Europe become named after the websites discovered at Santana de Mures and at Cherniakhiv in Ukraine. The subculture turned into unfold throughout what nowadays constitutes Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, and parts of Belarus. It likely corresponds to the Gothic country of Oium as described by Jordanes in his work Getica, however it is however the result of a poly-ethnic cultural melange of the Gothic, Getae-Dacian, Sarmatian and Slavic populations of the region.

Santana de Mures turned into a part of the Szekely Land place of Transylvania. Until 1918, the village belonged to the Maros-Torda County of the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became a part of Romania. The commune has an ethnically blended populace, with a Romanian majority. According to the 2011 Romanian Census, it has a populace of 5,616 of which 50.97% or 2,863 are Romanians and 41.27% or 2,318 are Hungarians.