Meseș Mountains
mountain range in Transylvania, Romania
The Meseș Mountains (Romanian: Munții Meseșului, Hungarian: Meszes-hegység) are a mountain range in Transylvania, Romania, which belongs to the Apuseni Mountains. The highest peak is Măgura Priei Peak, at 996 m (3,268 ft).
The mountains are located in Sălaj and Cluj counties, south of Zalău and northwest of Cluj-Napoca. The main rivers flowing through the area are the Crasna (with its tributary, the Pria), Almaș, and Agrij.
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Bibliography
Sălaj, Monografie, Victor Cormoș, Valentin Borda, Editura Sport Turism, București 1980.
Zona Etnografică Meseș, Ioan Augustin Goia, Editura Sport-Turism, București 1982.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as mountain range in Transylvania, 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 May 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q731065. Authority coordinates are 47.118, 23.035. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 1982.
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