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Reghin (Romania, Mures)

Municipiul Reghin - Szászrégen Megyei Jogú Város

Last modified: 2002-03-29 by istvan molnar
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Reghin (in Hungarian Szászrégen, in German Sächsisch-Reen) is a city in Mureş County of Romania (in the valley of Mureş River in Transylvania). The city has got 35.004 inhabitants (31,8% Hungarians, 1992 census). The settlement was the town in Maros-Torda (in Rumanian Mureş-Turda) County of Hungary to 1918/1920 (Rumanian occupation/Treaty of Trianon). In 1910 the town had got 7310 inhabitants (41,0% German, 40,3% Hungarian and 17,9% Romanian). 1920-1940 the town was in Rumania in Mureş County. 1940-1944 in Hungary (after the Decision of Vienna II). After the WWII the settlement lossed its German inhabitants. The treaty of Paris reallocated it to Romania.
Source: http://www.net.hu/corvinus/lib/hmcb/hmcb10.htm#t17
István Molnár, 25 March 2002



Historical flag of Szászrégen (Kingdom of Hungary)

by António Martins, 27 February 2001

Red with descending bend (wide 1/7th of the hoist), a yellow six pointed star with incompletely red lined diagonals on the upper fly, and a yellow fleur-de-lis on the bottom hoist.
António Martins, 27 February 2001

This flag appears at Dr. Széll Sándor: Városaink neve, címere és lobogója (1941) as "Szászrégen, Maros-Torda Co.".
António Martins, 27 February 2001

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