Lăzarea
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Lăzarea Gyergyószárhegy |
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| Commune | ||
The Lázár Castle
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 Location of Lăzarea |
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 Lăzarea
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| Coordinates: 46°45′0″N 25°32′0″E / 46.75000°N 25.53333°ECoordinates: 46°45′0″N 25°32′0″E / 46.75000°N 25.53333°E | ||
| Country |
 Romania
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| County | Harghita County | |
| Status | Commune | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Gábor László (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 80.88 km2 (31.23 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 3,395 | |
| • Density | 44.59/km2 (115.5/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
| Postal Code | 537135 | |
| Area code(s) | +40 266 | |
Lăzarea (Hungarian: Gyergyószárhegy or colloquially Szárhegy, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟɛrɟoːsaːrhɛɟ], meaning Bold Mountain in Gyergyó) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is composed of two villages:
It is one of the oldest settlements in the area, and is now a tourist and cultural centre. It has various local attractions, including the Lázár castle (1450).
The history of the village is closely interwoven with that of the Lázár family.
Its first written mention is from 1482 when a certain Erzsébet Bíró of Kide warned a Székely named Lázár of Zarhegh and Péter Szilvási to beware of disposing of the estate of Kide to which she was entitled under the title of bride price and dower. In 1576, its name was recorded as Szárhegy, in 1888 as Gyergyó-Szárhegy. Its original Romanian name derived from the Hungarian Gyergyószárhegy as Giugeu-Sarheghi which was modified to the current official name after 1918.
It belonged administratively to the Székely seat of Gyergyószék, subsequently absorbed into Csíkszék district, until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when it fell within Csík County in the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became part of Romania and fell within Ciuc County during the interwar period. In 1940, the second Vienna Award granted the Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the village was held by Hungary until 1944. After Soviet occupation, the Romanian administration returned and the commune became officially part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the commune fell within the Hungarian Autonomous Province, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureș-Hungarian Autonomous Province. In 1968, the province was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.
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