| Tomeşti Csíkszenttamás |
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| Location of Tomeşti, Harghita | |
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Tomeşti
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| Country | Romania |
| County | Harghita County |
| Status | Commune |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Tibor Márk (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 2,644 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal Code | 537037 |
| Area code(s) | +40 266 |
| Website | www.csikszenttamas.eoldal.hu |
Tomeşti (Hungarian: Csíkszenttamás, or colloquially Szenttamás, Hungarian pronunciation: [’tʃiːksɛntɒmaːʃ]) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. It is named after Saint Thomas. The commune is composed of a single village, Tomeşti.
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The village is located 22 km north of Miercurea-Ciuc along the Olt River.
Its name was first mentioned in 1333 when, a sacerdos de Sancto Toma, a priest from St Thomas was mentioned. In 1441, it is recoded by its Hungarian names as Zenth Thamas, in 1549 as Szent Tamás. Until 1919, its Romanian name was Sântămas.[1]
The village was part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. It belonged to Csíkszék district until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when fell within the Csík County in the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became part of Romania and fell within Ciuc County during the interwar period. In 1940, the second Vienna Award granted Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the village was held by Hungary until 1944. After Soviet occupation, the Romanian administration returned and the commune became officially part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the commune fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureş-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the province was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.
Formerly part of Cârţa commune, the village broke off in 2004 with a population of 2,644. [2] The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. (For ethnic composition check demographics for Cârţa.
The village is twinned with