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| 2595 Cluj-Napoca: 1. Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral; 2 & 3. Saint Michael's Church; 5. The Central Park; 6. Lucian Blaga National Theatre. |
Located in the Someşul Mic River valley, Cluj-Napoca is is the second most populous city in Romania, and the unofficial capital to the historical province of Transylvania. Established by Romans after the conquer of Dacia in AD 106, Napoca gained the status of a colonia in 2nd century and became a provincial capital of Dacia Porolissensis. The colonia was evacuated in 274 by the Romans, and there are no references to urban settlement on the site for the better part of a millennium thereafter.
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| 2596 Cluj-Napoca: 1. Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral; 2. The Central Park; 3. Iuliu Maniu Street; 3. Lucian Blaga National Theatre; 4. Saint Michael's Church and the equestrian statue of Matthias Corvinus; 5. Bánffy Palace. |
At the beginning of the Middle Ages, two groups of buildings existed on the current site of the city: the wooden fortress at Cluj-Mănăştur and the civilian settlement developed around the current Museum Place. After the conquest of Transylvania by the Hungarians, the city became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. A castle and a village were built to the northwest of the ancient Napoca no later than the late 12th century, settled by large groups of Transylvanian Saxons.
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