Vulcan
Vulcan is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colonia 1 Mai and Vulcan. It also included Holbav village until 2004, when it was split off to form a separate commune.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 5,490 residents
- Description: commune in Braşov County, Romania
- Also known as: “Szászvolkány”, “Vulcan, Brașov”, and “Wolkendorf”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortified church in Vulcan, Brașov and Castra Cumidava.
Castra Cumidava
Photo: Saturnian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cumidava was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia Apulensis. It is located at 4 km northwest of the city Râșnov, Romania near the city of Vulcan. The site is located on the middle terrace of Bârsa River. Castra Cumidava is situated 2½ km southeast of Vulcan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vulcan and Holbav.
Holbav
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holbav is a village, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Vulcan.
Vulcan
- Category: commune of Romania
- Location: Comuna Vulcan, Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Volapük—“Vulcan” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Comuna Vulcan”
- Chechen: “Вулкан (коммуна)”
- Chechen: “Вулкан”
- Chinese: “Vulcan”
- Chinese: “武爾坎鄉”
- Dutch: “Szászvolkány”
- Dutch: “Vulcan”
- Dutch: “Wolkendorf”
- Esperanto: “Szászvolkány község”
- Esperanto: “Szászvolkány”
- Esperanto: “Vulcan”
- Esperanto: “Wolkendorf”
- French: “Szászvolkány”
- French: “Vulcan”
- French: “Wolkendorf”
- German: “Szászvolkány”
- German: “Vulcan”
- German: “Wolkendorf”
- Hungarian: “Szászvolkány község”
- Hungarian: “Szászvolkány”
- Hungarian: “Vulcan”
- Hungarian: “Wolkendorf”
- Irish: “Vulcan”
- Italian: “Szászvolkány”
- Italian: “Vulcan”
- Italian: “Wolkendorf”
- Japanese: “ヴルカン”
- Lithuanian: “Szászvolkány”
- Lithuanian: “Vulcan”
- Lithuanian: “Wolkendorf”
- Malay: “Vulcan, Braşov”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vulcan”
- Polish: “Vulcan (gmina)”
- Polish: “Vulcan”
- Portuguese: “Szászvolkány”
- Portuguese: “Vulcan”
- Portuguese: “Wolkendorf”
- Romanian: “Comuna Vulcan, Brașov”
- Romanian: “Szászvolkány”
- Romanian: “Vulcan”
- Romanian: “Wolkendorf”
- Serbian: “Општина Вулкан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Vulcan, Brașov”
- Spanish: “Szászvolkány”
- Spanish: “Vulcan”
- Spanish: “Wolkendorf”
- Tatar: “Вулкан (коммуна)”
- Tatar: “Вулкан”
- Turkish: “Vulcan (Braşov)”
- Turkish: “Vulcan”
- Ukrainian: “Вулкан”
- Vietnamese: “Vulcan, Brașov”
- Vietnamese: “Vulcan”
- Volapük: “Vulcan”
- “Vulcan”
- “Vulcan, Brașov”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Dealul Cotului and Dealul Viilor.
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