Turda
Turda is a city in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is located in the southeastern part of the county, 34.2 km from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca, to which it is connected by the European route E81, and 6.7 km from nearby Câmpia Turzii.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 47,700 residents
- Description: city in Cluj County, Romania
- Also known as: “55259”, “Municipiul Turda”, “Thorenburg”, and “Torda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salina Turda and Castra Potaissa.
Salina Turda
Salina Turda is a salt mine in the Durgău-Valea Sărată area of Turda, the second largest city in Cluj County, northwest Transylvania. Opened for tourists in 1992, the Salina Turda mine was visited by about 618,000 Romanian and foreign tourists in 2017.
Castra Potaissa
Photo: CristianChirita, CC BY 2.5.
Potaissa was a legionary fortress and later a city in the Roman province of Dacia, located in today's Turda, Romania. It appears on the Tabula Peutingeriana as Patavissa between Salinae and Napoca.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mihai Viteazu and Copăceni.
Turda
- Categories: municipality of Romania and locality
- Location: Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.5685° or 46° 34′ 7″ northLongitude
23.7854° or 23° 47′ 7″ eastPopulation
47,700Elevation
335 metres (1,099 feet)Open location code
8GR5HQ9P+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 57772848OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
664453Wikidata ID
Q209809
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Welsh—“Turda” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Turda”
- Armenian: “Տուրդա”
- Basque: “Turda”
- Belarusian: “Турда”
- Bulgarian: “Турда”
- Catalan: “Turda”
- Chinese: “图尔达”
- Chinese: “圖爾達”
- Croatian: “Turda”
- Czech: “Potaissa”
- Czech: “Turda”
- Danish: “Turda”
- Dutch: “Thorenburg”
- Dutch: “Torda”
- Dutch: “Turda”
- Esperanto: “Torda”
- Esperanto: “Turda”
- Estonian: “Thorenburg”
- Estonian: “Torda”
- Estonian: “Turda”
- Finnish: “Potaissa”
- Finnish: “Turda”
- French: “Thorda”
- French: “Turda”
- Georgian: “ტურდა”
- German: “Potaissa”
- German: “Thorenburg”
- German: “Torda”
- German: “Turda”
- Hebrew: “טורדה”
- Hungarian: “Torda”
- Indonesian: “Thorenburg”
- Indonesian: “Turda”
- Irish: “Turda”
- Italian: “Torda”
- Italian: “Turda”
- Japanese: “トゥルダ”
- Korean: “투르다”
- Latin: “Potaissa”
- Lithuanian: “Turda”
- Macedonian: “Турда”
- Malay: “Turda”
- Maltese: “Thorenburg”
- Maltese: “Torda”
- Maltese: “Turda”
- Minangkabau: “Turda”
- Moroccan Arabic: “توردا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turda”
- Norwegian: “Turda”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Turda”
- Persian: “توردا”
- Polish: “Turda”
- Portuguese: “Turda”
- Romanian: “Turda”
- Russian: “Турда”
- Serbian: “Turda”
- Serbian: “Општина Турда”
- Serbian: “Турда”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Turda, Cluj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Turda”
- Silesian: “Turda”
- Slovenian: “Turda”
- South Azerbaijani: “توردا”
- Spanish: “Turda”
- Swedish: “Turda”
- Tajik: “Turda”
- Tajik: “Турда”
- Tatar: “Турда”
- Thai: “ตูร์ดา”
- Turkish: “Armutlu (Cluj)”
- Turkish: “Armutlu (Kaloş)”
- Turkish: “Torda”
- Turkish: “Turda”
- Ukrainian: “Турда”
- Vietnamese: “Turda”
- Welsh: “Turda, Romania”
- “Turda”
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