Tileagd

Tileagd
Commune
Country	Romania
County	Bihor County
Population  (2002)	7,142
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Tileagd (Template:Lang-hu) is a large commune located in Bihor County, western Romania.

Geography

It is on the picturesque road between Oradea and Cluj-Napoca, 23 kilometres from Oradea.The closest town to Tileagd is Aleşd, 12 km away. Tileagd is served by three CFR trains daily from Oradea, which continue to Aleşd, Huedin and Cluj-Napoca.

Etymology

Its Hungarian name originates in the word telek which means "plot" in English with a "d" affixture. The first written record about the village was made in a warrant of 1294's copy of 1572 under the name Thelegd and then its name emerged in 1773 as Mező-Telegd.

History

At the beginning of the 13th century, here lived a group of the Székelys ,from where they moved to Udvarhelyszék. They were called Székelys of Telegd and the first name of Székelyudvarhely which is the centre of the area they moved was Telegd. In 1291, here moved the founder of the Thelegdy family. In 1688, at the verge of the village, Imre Thököly's Kuruc army was defeated by general Heissler. With building a railway line, animal and feed commerces started thriving as of 1870. Later then, many new industrial, financial and other institutions were founded; for example, the first bank "Mezőtelegd vidéki Takarékpénztár Rt" in 1890, and at the beginning of the 20th century, oil refinery and its neighborhood a works were built.

Population

• In 1828, it had a population of 1575.
• In 1900, it had a population of 2508. It composed of 2034 Hungarians, 424 Romanians 24 Germans 13 Slovaks 13 Gypsies.
• In 2002, it had a population of 3960. It composed of 2374 Romanians, 1016 Hungarians, 523 Gypsies ,40 Slovaks.

Notable residents

• Here born the bishop of Nagyszombat and the archbishop of Esztergom, MiklósTelegdi.
• Here died the wife of Stephen Bocskay, Kata Hagymássy.