Ogra
commune in Mureș County, Romania
Ogra (Hungarian: Marosugra or colloquially Ugra, pronounced: [ˈmɒroʃuɡrɒ]) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Dileu Vechi (Oláhdellő), Giuluș (Gyulas), Lăscud (Lackod), Ogra, and Vaideiu (Mezőújfalu).
The commune is on the Transylvanian Plateau, on the banks of the Mureș River. It is in the southwestern part of the county, 22 km (14 mi) from the county seat, Târgu Mureș. The A3 motorway connects Ogra to Brașov (Cristian), 160.1 km (99.5 mi) to the southeast and Cluj-Napoca (Gilău), 89.7 km (55.7 mi) to the northwest. The Târgu Mureș International Airport is 8.7 km (5.4 mi) to the east.
As of the 2011 census, the commune had a population of 2,387, of which 45.3% were Romanians, 29.2% Roma, and 21.3% Hungarians. At the 2021 census, Ogra had a population of 2,442; of those, 40.46% were Roma, 33.7% Romanians, and 15.85% Hungarians.
Haller Castle was originally built in the seventeenth century, although most of the current building dates from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and is Post-Baroque. It was nationalized by the Communist authorities in 1949, and served for a while as a school and then town hall; since 2011 it functions as a hotel and restaurant.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ogra” as commune in Mureș County, Romania. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as commune in Mureș County, Romania. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5057206. Authority coordinates are 46.402, 24.323. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2021 and 1949.
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