Breadfield

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Miklós Nagy: The Breadfield (1870).

The Breadfield (Romanian: Câmpul Pâinii, Hungarian: Kenyérmező) is a landscape in southwest Transylvania (Romania), between Orăştie (Szászváros) and Sebeş (Szászsebes) in the Transylvanian Saxon land, near the Mureş River. The central settlement is Cugir (Hungarian: Kudzsir, German: Kudschir).

The Cugir Creek's old Magyar name is Kenyér (bread), which gave rise to the name Breadfield. The region's borders to the south are the Cugir Mountains, to the north the Mureş, to the west Hunedoara County, and to the east the Sebeş River.

The landscape is a plain and rather prolifical. In former times mainly Saxons lived on the Breadfield, today chiefly Romanians. In 1479 the Transylvanias scored a victory over the Ottoman Army in the Breadfield (near Şibot). In remembrance of the victory Stephen V Báthory was build to a chapel. Although the Turks later was beat down, the remains up the 20th century maintain an existence.

Settlements of Breadfield

Vinţu de Jos (hung. Alvinc, ger. Unterwintz or Winzendorf)
Pianul de Jos (hung. Alsópián, Szászpián, popular romanian name Chian, ger. Deutschpien or Deutschpian)
Săliştea, Alba (old hungarian name is Tartaria, latter Alsótatárlaka, was thought the Tartar word is Tatar, fact out and way Hell. In 15th century was cannot be. In the right place was in 1310 Oláhárkos and Szászárkos or -erkes, in 1488 Grebencsin)
Săliştea (This is not identical Săliştea, Alba. Sometime was Cioara, hung. Alsócsóra)
Balomiru de Câmp (hung. Balomir)
Şibot (hung. Alkenyér or Zsibotalkenyér, ger. Unterbrodsdorf)
Vinerea (hung. Felkenyér, ger. Oberbrodsdorf)
Cugir
Aurel Vlaicu (previoisly Binţinţi, hung. Bencenc, ger. Benzendorf. Was partly also here to welter the Breadfield Battle)
Pişchinţi (hung. Piskinc)
Vaidei (hung. Vajdej, ger. Weidendorf)
Romos (hung. Romosz, ger. Rumes)
Gelmar (hung. Gyalmár)