Alba County
Alba County is a county of Romania located in the historic region of Transylvania. Its capital is Alba Iulia, a city with a population of 63,536.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Alba Iulia and Blaj.
Alba Iulia
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Alba Iulia is a city in Western Transylvania, Romania. It is the capital of Alba county and has one of the most beautiful Habsburg citadels of Europe.
Blaj
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Blaj is in Alba County and situated next to the Tarnăvel river. Blaj was the cultural center of the Transylvanian Romanians in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Aiud
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Aiud is a city located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. The city's population is 21,307. It has the status of municipiu. The city derives its name ultimately from Saint Giles, to whom the first church in the settlement was dedicated when built.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Roșia Montană and Baia de Arieș.
Roșia Montană
Roșia Montană is a village in Alba County, dating back to 131 AD. The mining landscape with a history stretching back to Roman times are listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Baia de Arieș
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Baia de Arieș is a town in Alba County, Romania. It administers five villages: Brăzești, Cioara de Sus, Muncelu, Sartăș, and Simulești. With a population of 3,035 in 2021, it was until 2004 a mining centre extracting, mainly for base metals but also arsenopyrite and pyrite-rich concentrate containing gold.
Câlnic
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Câlnic is a commune in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, composed of two villages, Câlnic and Deal. Câlnic village is known for its castle, which is on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
Arieșeni
Arieșeni is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,464 as of 2021. The commune is composed of eighteen villages: Arieșeni, Avrămești, Bubești, Casa de Piatră, Cobleș, Dealu Bajului, Fața Cristesei, Fața Lăpușului, Galbena, Hodobana, Izlaz, Păntești, Pătrăhăițești, Poienița, Ravicești, Ștei-Arieșeni, Sturu, and Vanvucești.
Alba County
- Type: county of Romania with 326,000 residents
- Description: county in Romania
- Also known as: “RO121”
- Neighbors: Cluj County, Hunedoara County, Mureș County, and Sibiu County
- Location: Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Alba County” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Alba”
- Albanian: “Qarku Alba”
- Arabic: “إقليم ألبا”
- Aragonese: “Provincia d’Alba”
- Azerbaijani: “Alba (judets)”
- Azerbaijani: “Alba”
- Basque: “Alba konderria”
- Belarusian: “Алба (жудзец)”
- Belarusian: “Алба”
- Belarusian: “жудзец Алба”
- Bengali: “এলবা কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Alba (okrug)”
- Bosnian: “Alba”
- Bulgarian: “Алба”
- Catalan: “Província d’Alba”
- Cebuano: “Județul Alba”
- Chinese: “Alba Koān”
- Chinese: “阿尔巴县”
- Chinese: “阿爾巴縣”
- Croatian: “Alba”
- Czech: “Alba”
- Danish: “Alba”
- Dutch: “District Alba”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Alba”
- Estonian: “Alba maakond”
- Finnish: “Alba”
- French: “Alba”
- French: “Județ d’Alba”
- Galician: “Condado de Alba”
- Georgian: “ალბის ჟუდეცი”
- German: “Kreis Alba”
- Greek: “Άλμπα”
- Greek: “Τζουντέτς της Άλμπα”
- Gujarati: “આલ્બા કાઉન્ટી”
- Hebrew: “אלבה”
- Hindi: “अल्बा काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Fehér megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Alba”
- Irish: “Alba”
- Italian: “distretto di Alba”
- Italian: “Distretto di Alba”
- Japanese: “アルバ県”
- Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಬಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “알바주”
- Ladino: “Alba”
- Latin: “Alba”
- Latvian: “Albas žudecs”
- Lithuanian: “Albos apskritis”
- Lombard: “Distret de Alba”
- Macedonian: “Алба”
- Malay: “Daerah Alba”
- Malay: “Wilayah Alba”
- Maltese: “Kontea ta‘ Alba”
- Marathi: “अल्बा काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alba Koān”
- Mongolian: “Алба аймаг”
- Mongolian: “Алба тойрог”
- Northern Frisian: “Alba (Kreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Alba”
- Northern Sami: “Alba guovlu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alba fylke”
- Norwegian: “Alba”
- Ossetian: “Албæ (жудец)”
- Ossetian: “Албæ”
- Persian: “شهرستان آلبا”
- Polish: “Okręg Alba”
- Portuguese: “Alba”
- Romanian: “Alba”
- Romanian: “Judetul Alba”
- Romanian: “Judeţul Alba”
- Romanian: “Județul Alba”
- Russian: “Алба”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alba”
- Serbian: “Алба”
- Serbian: “Жупанија Алба”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alba”
- Sinhala: “ඇල්බා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Alba”
- Spanish: “Alba”
- Spanish: “distrito de Alba”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Alba”
- Swedish: “Alba”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Алба”
- Tamil: “அல்பா கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “ఆల్బా కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลอัลบา”
- Turkish: “Alba ili”
- Turkish: “Alba”
- Ukrainian: “Алба”
- Urdu: “البا کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Alba okrugi”
- Vietnamese: “Alba”
- Walloon: “Alba”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kondado han Alba”
- Western Panjabi: “البا کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “阿尔巴县”
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