Gherla

Gherla is a municipality in Cluj County, Romania. It is positioned forty five km from Cluj-Napoca on the Someșul Mic River, and has a population of 20,203. Three villages are administered by using the city: Baița, Hașdate and Silivaș. The city changed into formerly known as Armenopolis as it changed into populated by way of Armenians. A clay tablet containing a fragmentary Old Persian cuneiform of the Achaemenid king Darius I became found at Gherla in 1937. It may be related to Darius I's epigraphic activities in relation to his Scythian campaign of 513 BC as reported by Herodotus. The locality changed into first recorded in 1291 as a village named Gherlahida .

The 2nd call turned into Armenian, Hayakaghak, meaning "Armenian town"; it took the Medieval Latin and Greek professional call Armenopolis, in addition to the German opportunity call Armenierstadt. Later, the name Szamosujvar became utilized in reputable Hungarian facts, meaning "the brand new metropolis on the Someș". Before 1918, Gherla turned into a part of the Kingdom of Hungary comitatus of Szolnok-Doboka. It turned into again a part of Hungary between 1940-1944.