Suseni, Harghita

Suseni Gyergyóújfalu
Commune
Location of Suseni, Harghita Location of Suseni, Harghita
Suseni Location of Suseni, Harghita
Coordinates:
Country	Romania
County	Harghita County
Status	Commune
Government
• Mayor	Imre Kolumbán (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)
Area
• Total	220.92 km2 (85.30 sq mi)
Population (2002)
• Total	5,152
• Density	23.32/km2 (60.4/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	537305
Area code(s)	+40 266
Website	www.gyergyoujfalu.ro

Suseni (Hungarian: Gyergyóújfalu, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟɛrɟoːuːjfɒlu]) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.

Component villages

The commune is composed of five villages:

In Romanian	In Hungarian
Chileni	Kilyénfalva
Liban	Libántelep
Senetea	Szenete
Suseni	Gyergyóújfalu
Valea Strâmbă	Tekerőpatak

History

The villages were part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. They belonged to Gyergyószék area until the administrative reform of Transylvania in 1876, when they fell within the Gyergyószentmiklós district of Csík County in the Kingdom of Hungary. Between 1762 and 1851, the village provided recruits for the 9th Company of the First Székely Infantry Regiment. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, they became part of Romania and fell within Ciuc County during the interwar period. In 1940, the second Vienna Award granted the Northern Transylvania to Hungary and the villages were held by Hungary until 1944. After Soviet occupation, the Romanian administration returned and the commune became officially part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the commune fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureş-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the province was abolished, and since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 5,152 of which 97.44% or 5,020 are Hungarian.