Székelydálya

Ulieș

Ulieș

Commune in Harghita County, Romania

For the village in Hunedoara County, see Gurasada. For the village in Mureș County, see Râciu.

Ulieș (Hungarian: Kányád) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The commune is composed of eight villages: Daia (Székelydálya), Iașu (Jásfalva), Ighiu (Ége), Nicolești (Miklósfalva), Obrănești (Abránfalva), Petecu (Petek), Ulieș, and Vasileni (Homoródszentlászló).

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The route of the Via Transilvanica long-distance trail passes through the villages of Daia, Iașu, and Ulieș.[3]

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2002 census it had a population of 1,273, of which 98.59% or 1,255 were Hungarians.[4] At the 2011 census, the commune had 1,193 inhabitants; of those, 91.03% were Hungarians, 4.78% Roma, and 1.17% Romanians. At the 2021 census, Ulieș had a population of 1,068, of which 90.17% were Hungarians.

References

  1. [1]
    "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
  3. [3]
    "Terra Siculorum | Via Transilvanica". www.viatransilvanica.com (in Romanian). Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  4. [4]
    "Structura Etno-demografică a României". www.edrc.ro.
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