Rupea
Appearance
Rupea | |
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Town | |
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![]() Location of Rupea | |
Coordinates: 46°2′20″N 25°13′21″E / 46.03889°N 25.22250°E | |
Country | ![]() |
County | Brașov County |
Status | Town |
Government | |
• Mayor | Flavius Dumitrescu (Democratic Liberal Party) |
Area | |
• Total | 74.87 km2 (28.91 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 5,011 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Website | http://primariarupea.ro/ |
Rupea (German Reps; Hungarian: Kőhalom, "mound of rocks"; Latin Ripa) is a town in Brașov County in Transylvania, Romania. It administers one village, Fișer (Schweischer; Sövénység), which has a fortified church. Older Romanian names for the settlement include Cohalm and Holuma. At the 2011 census, 71.6% of inhabitants were Romanians, 19.5% Hungarians, 7.1% Roma and 1.7% Germans.
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1956 | 4,691 | — |
1966 | 6,273 | +33.7% |
1977 | 6,640 | +5.9% |
1992 | 6,326 | −4.7% |
2002 | 6,246 | −1.3% |
2011 | 5,011 | −19.8% |
Source: Census data |
See also
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