Alma, Romania
commune located in Sibiu County, Romania
Alma (Hungarian: Küküllőalmás; German: Almaschken) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Alma, Giacăș (Gyákos; Jakobsdorf), and Șmig (Somogyom; Schmiegen).
At the 2011 census, the commune had 1,886 inhabitants; of those, 70.1% were Romanians, 24.2% Hungarians, and 4.7% Roma. At the 2021 census, Alma had a population of 1,692; of those, 68.85% were Romanians, 20.98% Hungarians, and 4.79% Roma.
“Alma, Romania” enters the record as commune located in Sibiu County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alma, Romania and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16427410. Authority coordinates are 46.230, 24.453. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alma, Romania” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.