Reghin
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Reghin Szászrégen |
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 Reghin
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| Coordinates: 46°46′33″N 24°42′30″E / 46.77583°N 24.70833°ECoordinates: 46°46′33″N 24°42′30″E / 46.77583°N 24.70833°E | ||
| Country |
 Romania
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| County | Mureş County | |
| Status | Municipality | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Maria Precup (Social Democratic Party) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 56.09 km2 (21.66 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
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 33,281 |
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| • 2002 census | 36,023 | |
| Demonym(s) | reghinean, reghineancă (ro) | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
| Website | http://www.primariareghin.ro/ | |
Reghin (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈreɡin]; Hungarian: Szászrégen, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsaːsreːɡɛn] or Régen; German: (Sächsisch) Regen) is a city and municipality in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania, on the Mureș River. As of 2011 it has a population of 33,281.
Reghin lies 29 km north-northeast of Târgu Mureș, extending on both shores of the Mureș River, at the confluence with the Gurghiu River. It was created by the 1926 union of the German-inhabited (formerly Szászrégen) and the Hungarian-inhabited (formerly Magyarrégen) city, and later joined with the two smaller communities of Apalina (Hungarian: Abafája; German: Bendorf) and Iernuțeni (Hungarian: Radnótfája; German: Etschdorf), added in 1956. Formally, the latter two are separate villages administered by the city.
Reghin was first mentioned in 1228 in a charter of Hungarian King Andrew II as Regun - however, evidence of its strategic location and defence system suggests that the town might have been considerably older, possibly founded by Ladislaus I.
Despite the devastations of the city during the Mongol invasion (1241) and during the Tatar and Cuman incursions (1285), the town developed rapidly: already in the second half of the 13th century the city was the residence and power centre of the families Tomaj and Kacsik, to whom the nearby lands were awarded by the Hungarian Crown. Reghin became a minor ecclesiastical centre in 1330, with the building of the Gothic church (Roman Catholic at the time, it now serves the Protestant community) in the German part of the city; it is still the largest church in the area, and hosts the oldest Medieval Latin inscription of any church in Transylvania. The Hungarian part of the city has an even older church, initially built in the Romanesque style.
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