Situated in the North-Western part of Romania, the Cluj county covers 2.8 per cent of Romania's surface. It has 736,000 inhabitants, of which 77 per cent are Romanians, 9 per cent are Magyars; 2.2 per cent are Gypsies, and others are Germans. Jews, Ukrainians. The archaeological discoveries in this county show the existence of a civilization integrated long time ago into the European life and culture. In the Gura Baciului zone the oldest Neolithic vestiges known in Romania (5.000 B.C.) were discovered. In the II-nd century B.C. there was a Geto-Dacian civilization. After the conquest of Dacia by Roman Empire, Potaissa (Turda) and Napoca (Cluj) were named municipalities. the last one becoming the capital city of Dacia Porolissensis - this being its first documentary attestation. From the far antiquity till our days, generations by generations, Dacia...

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