Lupeni

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Lupeni

County

Hunedoara County

Status

Municipality

Mayor

Cornel Resmeriţă, Social Democratic Party, since 2004

Population (2002)

31,409

Geographical coordinates

45°21′37″N, 23°14′18″E

Web site

http://www.lupeni.ro

Lupeni (German: Schylwolfsbach, Hungarian: Lupény) is a mining city in the Jiu Valley in Hunedoara County, Romania with a population of 31,409.

The name is derived from the Romanian "lup" meaning "wolf".

It was the site of the Lupeni Strike of 1929. The mining industry once employed 80% of the workers in the city, but after the government subsidies were halted, it proved inefficient and much of it was closed down in 1997.

1 Population
- 1.1 By nationality
- 1.2 By religion
2 External Links

[edit] Population

[edit] By nationality

Romanian: 27,965
Hungarian: 3,804
Roma (Gypsy): 713
German: 182
Polish: 104
Saxon: 40

[edit] By religion

Orthodox: 25,065
Roman Catholic: 2,862
Greek Catholic: 2,032
Reformed/Lutheran: 1,429
Other: 1,432

[edit] External Links

Jiu Valley Portal - the home of the Official Jiu Valley City Websites and a gateway to the Retezat Mountains and other destinations in the Transylvanian Alps