Șumuleu Ciuc

Şumuleu Ciuc Csíksomlyó
neighborhood
The Franciscan Church
Coordinates: 46°36′0″N 25°24′0″E / 46.60000°N 25.40000°E / 46.60000; 25.40000Coordinates: 46°36′0″N 25°24′0″E / 46.60000°N 25.40000°E / 46.60000; 25.40000
Country	Romania
County	Harghita County
Status	neighborhood
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	530202
Area code(s)	+40 266
Website	www.csiksomlyo.ro

Şumuleu Ciuc (Hungarian: Csíksomlyó, pronounced [ˈt͡ʃiːkʃomjoː]) is a neighborhood of Miercurea Ciuc, Harghita County, Romania. Until 1959, it was a separate commune. It is the site of an annual Roman Catholic pilgrimage, when Catholics from all over Hungary and Romania gather there.

It lies in eastern Transylvania, 3 km north-east from the center of Miercurea Ciuc, on the banks of the Şumuleu brook.

The settlement was first recorded in 1333, when a sacerdos de Sumbov was mentioned. A year later it was mentioned as Sumlov, in 1444 as Somlyo. The village name Csíksomlyó was given in 1913 when Csíksomlyó-Várdotfalva and Csobotfalva (Romanian: Cioboteni) villages were unified. Originally it designated the mountain in the neighborhood of the Franciscan monastery. According to historian Losteiner, the village had its own church and monastery as early as 1208.

Its Franciscan monastery was founded in 1442 by John Hunyadi, future governor of Hungary (1446–1452), mighty defender of Hungary against the Ottoman invasion, to commemorate his victory over the Turkish troops at Sibiu. The church and the monastery did not avoid the devastations of history. In 1553, Wallachian voivode Pătraşcu the Good and his son Ioan Vodă cel Cumplit cracked down on the village spreading havoc; in 1600, Habsburg general Basta raided Csíkszék; but the deadliest attack came in 1661, when the Tartars set the church, monastery and the school on fire destroying them. The next Tartar raid of 1694 was beaten back by well-prepared troops, even counting women within its lines.