Luduș

Luduș Marosludas
Town
Roman Catholic Parish Church
Coat of arms
Luduș
Coordinates: 46°28′40″N 24°5′46″E / 46.47778°N 24.09611°E / 46.47778; 24.09611Coordinates: 46°28′40″N 24°5′46″E / 46.47778°N 24.09611°E / 46.47778; 24.09611
Country	Romania
County	Mureș County
Status	Town
Government
• Mayor	Cristian Moldovan (PSD)
Area
• Total	67 km2 (26 sq mi)
Population (2004)
• Total	18,647
Ethnicity
• Romanians	69.66%
• Hungarians	25.22%
• Gypsies	4.89%
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Website	http://www.ludus.ro

Luduș (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈluduʃ]; Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɒroʃludɒʃ], German: Ludasch) is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.

Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămești (Eckentelep), Cioarga (Csorga), Ciurgău (Csorgó), Fundătura (Mezőalbisitelep or Belsőtelep), Gheja (Marosgezse) and Roșiori (Andrássytelep).

History

• 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de Ludas.
• 1377 - Mentioned in a transaction between two Hungarian nobles.
• 1930 - 5,085 inhabitants.
• 1940 to 1944, Hungarians occupied the town. The Jewish population is murdered during spring 1944 ((in Romanian) Luduș Massacre).
• 1960 - Luduș became a town.
• 1966 - 11,794 inhabitants.
• 2002 - 18,667 inhabitants.

Demographics

In 1910, the town had 4632 inhabitants. Ethnic composition of the town according to the 1910 census:

• Hungarians:3,116 (67.27%)
• Romanians:1,385 (29.9%) ^[1]

14,775 inhabitants. Ethnic composition of the town (2011 census):^[2]

• Romanians (68.75%)
• Hungarians (24.1%)
• Roma (6.54%)

Demographic movement of the population according to the census data:

See also

• Mureș County
• List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureș County)

Notes

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Luduș.

• (in Romanian) Luduş online
• (in Hungarian) Datasheet of Ludus in Transylvanian Hungarian Database
• (in English) (in Hungarian) Bánffy-Castle