| Silvania National College | |
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| Location | |
| Str. Unirii, nr.1, Zalău, Sălaj County, Romania |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1646 |
| Principal | Vasile Bulgărean |
| Assistant principals | Ervin Zoltán Faluvégi |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 949 (in 2002) |
| Website | cnszalau.ro |
Silvania National College (Romanian: Colegiul Național Silvania, Hungarian: Silvania Főgimnázium) is a blilngual high school located in Zalău, Romania, that has both Romanian and Hungarian language classes. In 2002 it had 949 students, of which 747 participated in Romanian and 202 in Hungarian language education.[1]
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The high school was formed by the Calvinist community in Zilah (present-day Zalău), in the first half of the 17th century. Initially the lessons were held in Latin, which was later replaced by Hungarian. In the 1830s, following the disagreement between the school and the church, Miklós Wesselényi took the burden of the institution and he paid the teachers wage and other fees. In honour of this, the school later took the name of Wesselényi.[2] In 1848 the students from the upper class led by their teachers joined the Hungarian Revolution, for which after the fall of the revolution the college feared of abolishment by the Habsburg authorities. The main building of the high school was built in 1903 also with the support of the Wesselényi family. In 1948 due to the Communist takeover the school was nationalized, ceased to exist as a faith school and it was renamed from Wesselényi Reformed College to simply Liceum nr. 2. From 1948 the school served as a Hungarian language institution, which in 1960 was unified with the Romanian language high school and since then the education runs in both languages. Between 1953–1965, the name of the high school was Ady Endre, then Liceu de Matematica-Fizica, Liceu Teoretic, and after 2001, Colegiul Național „Silvania”.[3]