Zau de Câmpie
commune in Mureș County, Romania
Zau de Câmpie (Hungarian: Mezőzáh, Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈmɛzøːzaːh]) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania composed of nine villages: Bărboși (Mezőszakál), Botei (Botadűlő), Bujor-Hodaie (Bozsortanya), Ciretea (Bábod), Gaura Sângerului (Szengyelisuvadás), Malea
(Boriskadűlő), Ștefăneaca, Tău (Mezőszélen), and Zau de Câmpie.
Geography
The commune is situated in the Transylvanian Plain, at an altitude of 307 m (1,007 ft). It lies on the banks of Pârâul de Câmpie (a right tributary of the river Mureș), which forms a string of lakes through the locality.
Zau de Câmpie is located in the western part of the county, 19 km (12 mi) from the town of Luduș and 41 km (25 mi) from de county seat, Târgu Mureș. It borders the following communes: Șăulia and Papiu Ilarian to the east, Valea Largă to the west, Miheșu de Câmpie to the north, and Tăureni to the south. Zau de Câmpie is crossed by county road DJ151, which runs from Luduș straight north to Șintereag, in Bistrița-Năsăud County.
History
After 1570, the settlement became part of the Principality of Transylvania. In 1876, it fell within the Torda-Aranyos County of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the aftermath of World War I, the Union of Transylvania with Romania was declared in December 1918. At the start of the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1918–1919, the locality passed under Romanian administration; after the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became part of the Kingdom of Romania.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zau de Câmpie” is commune in Mureș County, Romania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Câmpie, commune and Mureș, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5056754. Authority coordinates are 46.603, 24.155. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1570, 1876, 1918 and 1919.
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