Sebes

Sebes is a metropolis in Alba County, valuable Romania, and southern Transylvania. It is believed that there has been an in advance rural settlement in this region, with Romanian and Pecheneg population, situated east of contemporary town.

The metropolis itself turned into built with the aid of German settlers later referred as Transylvanian Saxons, however in reality originating from the area of Rhine and Moselle at the territory of the Hungarian Kingdom within the 2nd half of the 12th century and became an important metropolis in medieval Transylvania. Its town walls have been strengthened after the Tatar invasions from 1241 to 1242; however the city was occupied in 1438 by the Ottoman Empire. Transylvania's voivode John I Zapolya died in Sebes in 1540. The Transylvanian Diet met in Sebes in 1546, 1556, 1598 and 1600. The region of the meetings, the Zapolya House, is now a museum. After the union with Romania in 1918, the primary mayor of the town became Lionel Blaga, the brother of the Romanian poet and logician Lucian Blaga, who changed into born in the nearby village of Lancram.