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{{Infobox Romanian subdivision
|type               = town
|county             = Satu Mare
|official_name      = Tășnad
|other_name         = Tasnád
|image_flag         = 
|image_shield       = ROU SM Tasnad CoA.jpg
|image_skyline      = View in Tasnad 2.JPG
|image_caption      = Street in Tășnad
|image_location     = 
|image_map          = Tasnad jud Satu Mare.png
|map_caption        = Location in Satu Mare County
|leader_name        = Adrian-Dănuț Farcău<ref>{{cite web |url=https://prezenta.roaep.ro/locale27092020/romania-pv-final |title=Results of the 2020 local elections |publisher=Central Electoral Bureau |access-date=8 June 2021 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|leader_party       = PRO
|term               = 2020&ndash;2024
|coordinates        = {{coord|47|28|38|N|22|35|2|E|region:RO|display=inline,title}}
|elevation          = 129
|elevation_min      = 
|elevation_max      = 
|area_total         = 96.60
|area_footnotes     = 
|population_as_of   = 
|population_total   = auto
|population_footnotes = 
|postal_code        = 445300
|area_code          = (+40) 02 61
|website            = {{URL|http://www.tasnad.ro/}}
}}

'''Tășnad''' ({{IPA|ro|təʃˈnad}}; [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]: ''Tasnád'', <small>Hungarian pronunciation</small>: {{convertIPA-hu|’|t|a|s|n|á|d}}; [[German language|German]]: ''Trestenburg'') is a town in [[Satu Mare County]], [[Crișana]], [[Romania]]. It administers five villages: Blaja (''Tasnádbalázsháza''), Cig (''Csög''), Rațiu (''Ráctanya''), Sărăuad (''Tasnádszarvad''), and Valea Morii (''Tasnádmalomszeg'').

The town lies on the banks of the river [[Santău (river)|Santău]]. At about {{cvt|2|km}} from the center lies the ''Tășnad geothermal Spa'', known in Romania and abroad for its thermal waters.

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
|source = Census data
|1850 |5213
|1880 |5185
|1890 |5684
|1900 |6636
|1910 |7603
|1920 |7551
|1930 |7737
|1941 |8124
|1956 |8231
|1966 |8859
|1977 |9934
|1992 |10399
|2002 |10188
|2011 |8411
|2021 |8058
}}
At the [[2011 Romanian census|2011 census]], there were 8,411 people living within the city; of those, 51.1% were ethnic [[Romanians]], while 36.2% are ethnic [[Hungarians in Romania|Hungarians]], 11.4% ethnic [[Romani people in Romania|Romani]], and 1,1% others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.satumare.insse.ro/phpfiles/rezultateprovizorii.pdf|title=Comunicat de Presă: 02 februarie 2012 privind rezultatele provizorii ale Recensământului Populației și Locuințelor – 2011|website=Satumare.insse.ro|access-date=11 April 2018}}</ref> At the [[2021 Romanian census|2021 census]], Tășnad had a population of 8,058, of which 50.48% were Romanians, 27.93% Hungarians, and 14.36% Roma.<ref name="RPL2021">{{cite web|url=https://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tabel-1.03_1.3.1-si-1.03.2.xls|title=Populația rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021|publisher=[[National Institute of Statistics (Romania)|INSSE]]|language=ro|date=31 May 2023}}</ref> 

As of 2022, the city contains the [[Reformed Church, Tășnad|Reformed Church]], a Baptist Church, the Orthodox cathedral, a Roman Catholic church, and a Greek Catholic church.<ref name="gmaps">{{cite web |title=Church |url=https://www.google.com/maps/search/church/@47.4785763,22.5783812,1035m/data=!3m1!1e3 |website=Google Maps |publisher=Google, Inc. |access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref>

Dr. Abraham Fuchs wrote a comprehensive historical book about Tășnad as it was up to [[World War II]]. The book is in Hebrew and describes the vibrant Jewish life in this small town up until its destruction in 1944.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tasnad.org/|title=Tășnad|website=www.tasnad.org|access-date=11 April 2018}}</ref>

==History==
At the archaeological site of Tășnad-Sere in the Spa-area, finds from the Neolithic [[Körös culture|Körös]], Pișcolt, and [[Baden culture]]s have been made as well as remains from the late [[Iron Age]] and the migration period ([[Chernyakhov culture]]). Since 2012, Ulrike Sommer from the [[UCL Institute of Archaeology]] in London has conducted excavations of the Körös site together with the Satu Mare Museum.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Astaloș | first1 = Ciprian | last2 = Sommer | first2 = Ulrike | last3 = Virág | first3 = Cristi | year = 2013 | title = Excavations of an Early Neolithic Site at Tășnad, Romania | journal = [[UCL Institute of Archaeology|Archaeology International]] | volume = 16 | issue = 2012–2013 | pages = 47–53 | doi = 10.5334/ai.1614 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Until 1876, Tășnad was part of Közép-Szolnok County when it was incorporated in the newly formed [[Szilágy County]] of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]]. 

After the collapse of [[Austria-Hungary]] at the end of [[World War I]], and the declaration of the [[Union of Transylvania with Romania]], the [[Romanian Land Forces|Romanian Army]] took control of Tășnad in April 1919, during the [[Hungarian–Romanian War]]. The city officially became part of the territory ceded to the [[Kingdom of Romania]] in June 1920 under the terms of the [[Treaty of Trianon]]. In August 1940, under the auspices of [[Nazi Germany]], which imposed the [[Second Vienna Award]], [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]] retook the territory of [[Northern Transylvania]] (which included Tășnad) from Romania. Towards the end of [[World War II]], however, the city was taken back from Hungarian and [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops by Romanian and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces in October 1944.

==Natives==
* [[Lajos Bíró (zoologist)|Lajos Bíró]] (1856–1931), Hungarian zoologist
* [[George Copos]] (born 1953), businessman and politician
* [[Grigore Maior]] (1715–1785), Bishop of Făgăraș and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church 
* [[Petri Mór]] (1863–1945), teacher, school inspector, and author 
* [[Károly Nóti]] (1892–1954), Hungarian screenwriter

==Education==
===Schools===
*[[Industrial School Group in Tășnad]]

==Twin cities==
* {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Kispest]], Hungary

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Gallery
|File:Biserica Romano-Catolică din Tășnad - vedere frontală.jpg|Catholic church in Tășnad
|File:Biserica Reformată din Tășnad.jpg|Reformed church in Tășnad
}}

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