Chiuza
commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania
Chiuza (Hungarian: Középfalva) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Chiuza, Mireș (Diófás), Piatra (Kőfarka), and Săsarm (Szészárma).
The commune is situated on the Transylvanian Plateau, at an altitude of 277 m (909 ft), on the banks of the Someșul Mare River.
According to statistics from 1760–1762, Piatra village had 58 families, three priests, and a church. At the 2021 census, Chiuza commune had a population of 2,067; of those, 93.95% were Romanians and 1.06% Roma.
“Chiuza” enters the record as commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chiuza, commune and Bistrița-Năsăud can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Chiuza” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chiuza, commune and Bistrița-Năsăud provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5065621. VIAF identifies the subject as 3196170868662122930000. Authority coordinates are 47.240, 24.249. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1760, 1762 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chiuza” 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.