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Luduș Marosludas
Town
Roman Catholic church in Luduș
Coat of arms
Location in Mureș County
Luduș Location in Romania
Coordinates: 46°28′40″N 24°5′46″E / 46.47778°N 24.09611°E / 46.47778; 24.09611
Country	Romania
County	Mureș
Government
• Mayor (2020–2024)	Cristian Moldovan^[1] (PSD)
Area	67 km² (26 sq mi)
Elevation	274 m (899 ft)
Population (2021-12-01)^[2]	14,757
• Density	220/km² (570/sq mi)
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Postal code	545200
Area code	(+40) 02 65
Vehicle reg.	MS
Website	www.ludus.ro

Luduș (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈluduʃ]; Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɒroʃludɒʃ], German: Ludasch) is a town in Transylvania, Romania in Mureș County, 44 km (27 mi) south-west from the county's capital, Târgu Mureș.

Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămești (Eckentelep), Cioarga (Csorga), Ciurgău (Csorgó), Fundătura (Mezőalbisitelep or Belsőtelep), Gheja (Marosgezse), and Roșiori (Andrássytelep).

History

1330 – First mentioned as Plehanus de Ludas.
1377 – Mentioned in a transaction between two Hungarian nobles.
1930 – 5,085 inhabitants.
1940 to 1944, Hungarians occupied the town. The Jewish population is murdered during the Luduș massacre from 5 to 13 September 1944.
1960 - Luduș became a town.
1966 - 11,794 inhabitants.
2002 - 17,497 inhabitants.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, Luduș had a population of 14,757. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 15,328; out of them, 65.9% were Romanian, 23.2% were Hungarian, and 6.3% were Roma.^[3]

In 1850, the town had 1,166 inhabitants; the ethnic composition of the town according to the 1850 census was: 1,065 (91.34%) Romanians and 34 (2.92%) Hungarians.^[4] In 1910, the town had 4,632 inhabitants; the ethnic composition of the town according to the 1910 census was: 3,116 (67.27%) Hungarians and 1,385 (29.9%) Romanians.^[5]

Demographic movement of the population according to the census data:

Notable people

Dănuț Borbil (born 1973), professional Romanian arm-wrestler
Andreo Cseh (1895–1979), Hungarian/Dutch Roman Catholic priest
Cornel Gheți (born 1986), Romanian footballer
Pompeiu Hărășteanu (1935–2016), Romanian operatic bass/basso profondo
Ella Kovacs (born 1964), Romanian middle-distance runner
Sergiu Mândrean (born 1978), Romanian footballer
Horațiu Pungea (born 1986), Romanian rugby union player
László Sepsi (born 1987), Romanian footballer
Tara (von Neudorf) (born 1974), Romanian artist

Notes

^ "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
^ "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
^ Tab8. Populaţia stabilă după etnie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 3 March 2020.
^ Varga E. Árpád:Statistics on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations of Transylvania, Census data, 1850–2002 (in Hungarian)
^ Varga E. Árpád:Statistics on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations of Transylvania, Census data, 1850–2002 (in Hungarian)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Luduș.

(in Romanian) Luduș online
(in Hungarian) Datasheet of Luduș in Transylvanian Hungarian Database
(in English and Hungarian) Bánffy Castle

v t e Mureș County, Romania
Cities	Târgu Mureș (county seat) Reghin Sighișoara Târnăveni
Towns	Iernut Luduș Miercurea Nirajului Sângeorgiu de Pădure Sărmașu Sovata Ungheni
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