Talk:Poiana Sibiului

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I've removed the name in Hungarian because (as I argument below) it's not relevant for an English reader based on the current level of details of the article (maybe it can appear in a 'History' section if it was a loooong article, not in the beginning of the article):

• the vilage is known with the name Poiana, which means in Romanian clearing (an open space in a forest from which the trees have been removed). The long official name of Poiana Sibiului is used to distinguish it from other vilages with the same name (referencing to the fact that this one is the one near the town Sibiu)
• the village is mainly Romanian and while it does have a Roma minority (which uses the mane Poiana) it does not have (or had) a Hungarian minority
  • based on my experience as a person that knows phisically the vilage (my father was born there, I've got relatives there, know people living there, have spend there holidays as a child and so on)
  • I looked for official data and for example in 1930, it had 2 Hungarians vs. 4669 Romanians out of a population of 4678 ro:Image:Sibiu_1930.jpg
• although things change, this was a remote, traditional vilage. It escaped colectivisation during the comunist rule, and I bet that the Hungarian influence was minor based on the following story:

Hungarian Language was a compulsory subject at the vilage school during my great great grandfather childhood. When an inspecting teacher came to the vilage to check the level of knowledge he asked my great great grandfather if he is a boy or a girl (in Hungarian). He kind of understood the question, but was not sure which was the word for boy and which one for girl, so he took a choice and by mistake he answered in Hungarian that he's a girl.

• the town was dully mentioned on Hungarian maps (almost 100 years old) using Polyán which is obviously a phonetic transcription of the Romanian one

Bajamircea 23:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)