Blaj
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Bogdan Muraru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 15,700 residents
- Description: city in Alba County, Romania
- Also known as: “1348”, “Balazsfalva”, “Balázsfalva”, “Balázsfalva város”, and “Blasendorf”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sâncel and Tiur.
Blaj
- Categories: municipality of Romania and locality
- Location: Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.1742° or 46° 10′ 27″ northLongitude
23.9225° or 23° 55′ 21″ eastPopulation
15,700Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)Open location code
8GR55WFC+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 422868211OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
8299638Wikidata ID
Q624236
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Vietnamese—“Blaj” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Blaj”
- Aragonese: “Balázsfalva”
- Aragonese: “Blaj”
- Aragonese: “Blasendorf”
- Azerbaijani: “Blaj şəhəri”
- Azerbaijani: “Blaj”
- Bulgarian: “Блаж”
- Catalan: “Blaj”
- Cebuano: “Blaj”
- Cebuano: “Municipiul Blaj”
- Chinese: “布拉日”
- Czech: “Blaj”
- Danish: “Blaj”
- Dutch: “Balázsfalva”
- Dutch: “Blaj”
- Dutch: “Blasendorf”
- Esperanto: “Balázsfalva”
- Esperanto: “Blaj”
- Esperanto: “Blaĵo”
- Esperanto: “Blasendorf”
- Estonian: “Blaj”
- French: “Balázsfalva”
- French: “Blaj”
- French: “Blasendorf”
- Galician: “Blaj”
- German: “Balázsfalva”
- German: “Blaj”
- German: “Blasendorf”
- Hungarian: “Balázsfalva város”
- Hungarian: “Balázsfalva”
- Hungarian: “Blaj”
- Hungarian: “Blasendorf”
- Indonesian: “Balázsfalva”
- Indonesian: “Blaj”
- Interlingue: “Balázsfalva”
- Interlingue: “Blaj”
- Irish: “Blaj”
- Italian: “Balázsfalva”
- Italian: “Blaj”
- Italian: “Blasendorf”
- Japanese: “バラージュファルヴァ”
- Japanese: “ブラジ”
- Japanese: “ブラジュ”
- Korean: “블라지”
- Latin: “Villa Blasii”
- Lithuanian: “Blaj”
- Lithuanian: “Blažas”
- Luxembourgish: “Balázsfalva”
- Luxembourgish: “Blaj”
- Luxembourgish: “Blasendorf”
- Malay: “Blaj”
- Minangkabau: “Blaj”
- Moksha: “Блаж”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blaj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blaj”
- Persian: “بله”
- Polish: “Balázsfalva”
- Polish: “Blaj”
- Portuguese: “Balázsfalva”
- Portuguese: “Blaj”
- Portuguese: “Blasendorf”
- Romanian: “Balázsfalva”
- Romanian: “Blaj”
- Romanian: “Blasendorf”
- Russian: “Блаж”
- Serbian: “Balázsfalva”
- Serbian: “Blaj”
- Serbian: “Blaž”
- Serbian: “Блаж”
- Serbian: “Општина Блаж”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Blaj, Alba”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Blaj”
- Silesian: “Blaj (miasto)”
- Silesian: “Blaj”
- Slovak: “Balázsfalva”
- Slovak: “Blaj”
- South Azerbaijani: “بله ،”
- Spanish: “Balázsfalva”
- Spanish: “Blaj”
- Spanish: “Blasendorf”
- Swedish: “Blaj”
- Tajik: “Blaƶ”
- Tajik: “Блаж”
- Thai: “บลัฌ”
- Turkish: “Blaj”
- Ukrainian: “Блаж”
- Vietnamese: “Blaj”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Blaj”. Photo: Bogdan Muraru, CC BY-SA 4.0.