Doştat
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Doştat is a commune located in Alba County, Romania.
Boz (German: Bußd, Hungarian: Buzd) is one of the commune's villages. Its name seems to be derived from the Slavic Boz, meaning elder bush.[1] First attested in 1290, it had 571 inhabitants in 1786 and 1013 in 1920, of whom 342 were Transylvanian Saxons. By 1992, after the Saxons had emigrated en masse, the population had dropped to 371.[2]
Boz is the birthplace of the Lutheran priest Mathias Schuster, who founded the village of Rosenau in Seewalchen commune, Austria, as a place of refuge for the German population (Saxons and Landler) from Transylvania and other parts of Eastern Europe who had to flee after World War II in order to escape deportation to the Soviet Union and imprisonment.
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