Laslea
commune in Sibiu County, Romania
Laslea (German: Grosslasseln; Hungarian: Szászszentlászló) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Florești, Laslea, Mălâncrav, Nou Săsesc, and Roandola. In Romanian, Florești was known as Felța until 1950.
Geography
The commune is situated towards the center of the Transylvanian Plateau. It is located in the northeastern part of Sibiu County, on the border with Mureș County. It lies on the banks of the river Laslea, which discharges into the Târnava Mare near the village Laslea.
National road DN14 runs just north of the commune. The closest cities are Sighișoara, 13 km (8.1 mi) to the east, and Mediaș, 28 km (17 mi) to the west; the county capital, Sibiu, is 83 km (52 mi) to the southwest.
Villages
Mălâncrav
Mălâncrav is a village in Laslea commune. An asphalt road of 13 km leads to the village.
“Laslea” enters the record as commune in Sibiu County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Laslea, commune and Sibiu can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Laslea” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Laslea, commune and Sibiu provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12117155. VIAF identifies the subject as 129203790. Authority coordinates are 46.137, 24.637. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Laslea” 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.