Almașu Mare
commune in Alba County, Romania
Almașu Mare (German: Groß-Obstdorf; Hungarian: Nagyalmás) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania.
With a population of 1,048 according to the 2021 census, the commune is composed of seven villages: Almașu Mare, Almașu de Mijloc, Brădet, Cib, Cheile Cibului, Glod, and Nădăștia. Its current mayor, as of 2020, is Aron Zaharie. A former mining centre for gold, its income comes now mainly from agricultural and agrotouristical activities.
Almașu Mare's tourist objectives are the Cibu Gorges, the Glod Gorges, a thermal spring, and the Achim Emilian ethnographical museum.
The public source identifies “Almașu Mare” as commune in Alba County, Romania. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Almașu, Mare and commune.
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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 Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16423977. Authority coordinates are 46.076, 23.131. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2020.
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