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The communities from the region are keepers of important local
traditions enriched with elements of the foreign cultures that have
interacted with the region throughout its history.
The Hateg Country Dinosaurs Geopark aims to promote the
local values, to ensure the restoration of the monuments, to identify
and document the local traditions and to educate and inform the local
communities on how to preserve the local identity.
Historical facts about the Hateg Country
The most important moments in the history of the Hateg Country are:
- Some of the first hominid remains in Romania (29.000 yrs ago),
- Large number of prehistoric settlements shows permanent living in the region from Paleolithic to Bronze Age
- Celtic presence in the region - the Helm of Hateg (300 B.C.), now in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Vienna,
- The
bloody battle of Tapae between Romans and Dacians (101ac), followed by
the installation of roman military forces in the western part of the
region
- Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana founded and named Capitol of the Roman Province of Dacia (107A.C.),
- Local
ruler Litovoi perishes in the combats with the Hungarian armies and his
son is captured and then liberated after accepting the rule of Hungary
over his lands (beginning of the XIIIth century)
- The first mentioning of Hateg in the documents of the Hungarian Kingship (1247A.C.),
- The region becomes an important center for fur trade (XVIIIth-XIXth century),
- Front line and scarce battles in the First World War
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Ethnographic values
The ethnographic values are represented by rural localities with
households safeguarding the traditional architecture, crafts and
customs. Characteristic for the region is the wide celebration of the
local ‘'Nedeia'', a fest that each village has once per year.
The most important ethnographic elements found in the
region are: the costumes, the traditional music and dancing, the local
cuisine, the vernacular architecture, the shepherding traditions, local
crafts mostly wood carvings, homespun .
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Monuments
Among the monuments of Hateg Country covering a 2.000 year long history, the most important are:
- Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana, the capitol of the roman province Dacia
- Pesteana Church, built in the XIVth century, partially conserving wall paint from the XIVth century
- Densus Church, controversed date of construction, most historians date it at the end of the XIIIth century,
- SÂnpetru Church dated in the XIVth-XVth with a collection of stones from the antique roman ruins in the facade.
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SÂntamarie Orlea Parochial Church, built at the end of the XIIIth
century having its interior with one of the most beautiful fescues from
South Transylvania, dated 1311A.C.,
- Subcetate Fortress, the most important medieval fortress of the Hateg Country,
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Malaiesti Fortress, one of the oldest fortresses of the Hateg Country,
a type of military construction rarely preserved in Romania,
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Colt Fortress, a refuge fortress dating in XIVth century, built in the
northern highlands of Retezat Mountains, also considered subject of
inspiration of Jules Verne's novel "The Castle of the Carpathians"
- Colt's Fortress Church, built in the XIVth century, now belonging to the Colt monastery.
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