Brusturi,_Bihor

Brusturi, Bihor

Brusturi, Bihor

Commune in Bihor, Romania

Brusturi (Hungarian: Tataros) is a commune in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania with a population of 3,469 people. It is composed of eight villages: Brusturi, Cuieșd (Kövesd), Loranta (Loránta), Orvișele (Orvisel), Păulești (Felsőtótfalu), Picleu (Szóvárhegy), Țigăneștii de Criș (Cigányfalva), and Varasău (Varaszótanya).

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The commune lies on the banks of the river Valea Fânețelor. It is located in the north-central part of the county, 38 km (24 mi) east of the county seat, Oradea. Brusturi is crossed by national road DN1P [ro], which connects DN1 (starting from Uileacu de Criș) to DN19E [ro] (ending in Cenaloș).

In 1978, two miners (Ioan Bumb and Petru Lele) discovered dinosaur bones in a bauxite mine at Brusturi (Cornet).[2] The Berriasian bauxite deposits at Cornet have yielded approximately 10,000 bones and bone fragments, mainly from ornithopod dinosaurs and rarer pterosaurs (see: Dinosaurs of Romania).

References

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    "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
  2. [2]
    Marinescu, Florian (1989). "Bauxite Lens 204 from Brusturi-Cornet (Bihor County), dinosaur-bearing fossiliferous ore". studylib.net. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
Wooden church from Brusturi, now in Băile Felix
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