Luduș
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Luduș ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation: Template:ConvertIPA-hu, German: Ludasch) is a town in Transylvania, Romania in Mureș County, Template:Cvt 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
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.<ref>Varga E. Árpád:Statistics on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations of Transylvania, Census data, 1850–2002 Template:In lang</ref> 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.<ref>Varga E. Árpád:Statistics on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations of Transylvania, Census data, 1850–2002 Template:In lang</ref>
At the 2011 census, it had a population of 15,328; out of them, 65.9% were Romanians, 23.2% Hungarians, and 6.3% Roma.<ref>Tab8. Populația stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 3 March 2020.</ref> At the 2021 census, Luduș had a population of 14,757; of those, 63.69% were Romanians, 18.87% Hungarians, and 7.79% Roma.<ref name="RPL2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Demographic movement of the population according to the census data:
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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