Fantana

Romania / Brasov / Hoghiz /

Fantana village, Brasov County.
Fountain, in Hungarian Romanian HidegkutIn "Cold Fountain", is a town in Brasov, Transylvania, Romania.
A locality name origin opinion regarding the origin of the village fountain we have from Puscariu Sextil linguist who, in a articolSextil Puscariu, our village name in "Barsa", 1934, no. 5, Brasov, p 388. radiodifuzatConferinta held at Radio Bucharest, May 24, 1934, and then printed in the "Barsa", in 1934, which appeared in Brasov, says: * History and demography in 1733 when the Greek Catholic Bishop Micu-Klein Innocent organized a census in Transylvania, the Romanian village (Locus valachicus) Hidegkutsic, now called Fountain, were reviewed a total of 43 Romanian families. In other words, about 215 Romanians living in this town. ConscriptiuniRecensamant same register we learn that the work Hidegkut Iuon Greek Catholic priest, who was married, after the death of first wife (Bigamus). In town, there was a Greek Catholic church and parish house (Domus parochialis).
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   45°57'59"N   25°18'4"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago