Șăulia
commune in Mureș County, Romania
Șăulia (Hungarian: Mezősályi, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɛzøːʃaːji]) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania that is composed of four villages: Leorința-Șăulia (Lőrincidűlő), Măcicășești (Szteuniadülő), Pădurea (Erdőtanya), and Șăulia.
Demographics
At the 2002 census, Șăulia had a population of 2,117: 87% Romanians, 10% Roma, and 3% Hungarians. At the 2011 census, the commune had 2,018 inhabitants, of which 80.03% were Romanians, 16.3% Roma, and 1.39% Hungarians. At the 2021 census, Șăulia had a population of 1,892; of those, 81.24% were Romanians, 12.79% Roma, and 1.11% Hungarians.
The public source identifies “Șăulia” as commune in Mureș County, Romania. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Șăulia, commune and Mureș.
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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 Mar 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5058117. Authority coordinates are 46.631, 24.212. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2011 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Șăulia” 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.