The city owes its existence to salt. The existence of the settlement is attested to as early as the 11th century by the mention of a salt mine nearby. At the beginning of the 13th century, King Andrew II of Hungary established the Salt Chamber of Dés and raised the town to the status of a free royal town. Its privileges were later confirmed and extended by several Hungarian rulers, including King Matthias. After the Turks conquered Várad, many nobles fled to the town and settled there. Prince Apafi Mihály of Transylvania elevated the town of Dés to the rank of noble towns. The town was the seat of Inner-Solnok county, and from 1876 of Szolnok-Doboka County. By the second half of the 18th century salt mining had ceased. The Hungarian population in the area, depleted by the Turkish devastation, was replaced by an increasing number of Vlach migrants. The town itself retained its Hungarian majority until the early 20th century.

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{"item":"town","set":{"mapcenter":{"lat":"47.1422740000","long":"23.8756540000"},"townlink":"des-dej","town":{"townId":62,"active":1,"name_HU":"D\u00e9s","name_LO":"Dej","name_GE":"Deesch; Burglos","name_LT":"","seolink":"des-dej","listorder":24,"oldcounty":30,"country":4,"division":18,"altitude":"285","gps_lat":"47.1422740000","gps_long":"23.8756540000","population":30,"hungarian_2011":11.5,"population_1910":11452,"hungarian_1910":69.78,"german_1910":3.88,"slovak_1910":0,"romanian_1910":25.42,"rusin_1910":0,"serbian_1910":0,"croatian_1910":0,"slovenian_1910":0,"coatofarms":"","coatofarms_ref":"","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Drugs.bunny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cnam_dej.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Cnam dej\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/83\/Cnam_dej.jpg\/512px-Cnam_dej.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cnam_dej.jpg\u0022\u003EDrugs.bunny\u003C\/a\u003E, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","georegion":"Szamos Hills","river":"Szamos","description":"The city owes its existence to salt. The existence of the settlement is attested to as early as the 11th century by the mention of a salt mine nearby. At the beginning of the 13th century, King Andrew II of Hungary established the Salt Chamber of D\u00e9s and raised the town to the status of a free royal town. Its privileges were later confirmed and extended by several Hungarian rulers, including King Matthias. After the Turks conquered V\u00e1rad, many nobles fled to the town and settled there. Prince Apafi Mih\u00e1ly of Transylvania elevated the town of D\u00e9s to the rank of noble towns. The town was the seat of Inner-Solnok county, and from 1876 of Szolnok-Doboka County. By the second half of the 18th century salt mining had ceased. The Hungarian population in the area, depleted by the Turkish devastation, was replaced by an increasing number of Vlach migrants. The town itself retained its Hungarian majority until the early 20th century.","nameorigin":"","history":"#1|@#3|@1061|Sources mentioned D\u00e9sakna, which indicates that the settlement of D\u00e9s already existed at that time and it had a mine.@1214|The settlement of Dees was mentioned for the first time in a diploma as a place supplying salt. Its name comes from the old Hungarian personal name Derzs or Dezs\u0151. According to the tradition, the ancestors of the Hungarians rested and prayed at the site of the settlement and shouted Deus three times.@1205-1235|King Andrew II of Hungary established a salt chamber in D\u00e9s headed by a count. It is likely that its former castle was also built during the reign of King Andrew II, watching over the salt mining from the top of the Rose Hill (R\u00f3zsa-hegy) next to the road leading to Kolozsv\u00e1r. King Andrew put the town under the authority of the isp\u00e1n of Szolnok, and at the same time he made it a free royal town.@1236|King B\u00e9la IV of Hungary reaffirmed the free royal town status of D\u00e9s and took it out of the jurisdiction of the isp\u00e1n of Szolnok. From then on, their own elected judges ruled on every affairs of the town. In exchange, they were obliged to ship the salt mined in D\u00e9sakna on the river Szamos to the king's port every spring. But they had to pay only half the duty everywhere on their way.@1236|Its castle already existed, since the settlement was mentioned by the name Deeswar in the diploma of King B\u00e9la IV. The settlement was mentioned by this name on several occasions during the 13th and 14th centuries. The castle on the Old Castle Hill (\u00d3v\u00e1r-domb) was destroyed under unknown circumstances.@#5|@1261|The town received a new privilege, according to which they could transport and sell the salt mined in D\u00e9sakna during the winter freely until the day of St. George on land and on water for their own profit.@1279, 1290|King L\u00e1szl\u00f3 IV of Hungary reaffirmed the town's privileges twice.@1291|King Andrew III also reaffirmed the old privileges of the town and granted them right to hold weekly fair on Wednesdays.@from the late 13th century|The powerful oligarch K\u00e1n L\u00e1szl\u00f3, vajda of Transylvania, took control of D\u00e9s and he also appropriated the town's obligations payable to the king of Hungary. Most of the inhabitants abandoned the town in the turbulent times.@#6|@1310|K\u00e1n L\u00e1szl\u00f3 gave the town's obligations back to the king according to a mutual pact. D\u00e9s became a free royal town once more, and its privileges were reaffirmed by King Charles I of Hungary. The king also gave benefit for the Augustinian monks from the salt transported from D\u00e9sakna to D\u00e9sv\u00e1r.@1320|King Charles I of Hungary settled Saxons in D\u00e9s to repopulate the town.@1427|King Sigismund of Hungary promoted settling in the town and protected it from the B\u00e1nffy family, who collected unlawful duty from the people of D\u00e9s and forbade them to cut trees for the transportation of salt.@1437|The peasant army of Budai Nagy Antal defeated the army of vajda Cs\u00e1ki L\u00e1szl\u00f3 of Transylvania near D\u00e9s. This was the first time in the history of Hungary, when the peasants could defeat an army of the nobility. This peasant uprising led to the Union of K\u00e1polna, the union of the three nations of Transylvania (the nobility of the Hungarian counties, the Sz\u00e9kelys and the Saxons). Vlachs were not included in the union, because at that time they were much smaller in number, they were known to be economic migrants in Transylvania, and they were mainly shepherds and peasants (Hungarian peasants were also excluded from the political nation). This union gained real importance after the Principality of Transylvania was created as a result of the Turkish occupation of central Hungary.@1467|King Matthias of Hungary extended the tax of the royal treasury (tributum fisci regalis) and the Crown\u2019s customs (vectigal coronae) to Transylvania as well. An uprising broke out and they wanted to put vajda Szentgy\u00f6rgyi J\u00e1nos of Transylvania on the throne. King Matthias quickly marched into Transylvania with his army, and the conspirators surrendered without any resistance. Szentgy\u00f6rgyi pleaded for mercy and was pardoned, but was removed from his position.@1467|King Matthias of Hungary relieved D\u00e9s of every burden for ever, for the town did not take part in the rebellion that broke out in Transylania due to increasing royal taxes. The king reaffirmed the town's privileges.@1507|The ruined castle was mentioned. The huge stone that was called Council Stone, later Stone of the Seven Chieftains, by the people of D\u00e9s, was possibly one of the stones of the old castle, which started to decay in the 15th century. The memorial stone was rolled into the Szamos River by the German inhabitants in the middle of the 18th century. There was also a church in the castle dedicated to either Virgin Mary or Mary Magdalena.@1514|King Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 II of Hungary granted mercy to the town after their participation in the peasant uprising of D\u00f3zsa Gy\u00f6rgy saying that they were under the influence of coercion.@1521|King Louis II of Hungary protected the town against the Bishop of Transylvania reaffirming their right to elect their own judges.@#8|@1540|King John I of Hungary reaffirmed the privileges of the town.@#9|@#10|@1578|A memorial chapel was raised from the stones of the former castle church dedicated to Virgin Mary or Mary Magdalena. Romanian nationalists exploded the chapel in 1938. Today one of the largest cemeteries of the town occupies the site of the old castle.@16th-17th century|The town was one of the favourite places of residence of the princes of Transylvania. Many nobles moved to the town and had frequent conflicts with the burghers over bearing town burdens.@#12|@1602|The imperial commander General Basta set the town on fire and massacred its inhabitants.@#13|@#14|@around 1612|The Reformed Church was already fortified by the burghers at that time.@1613|Prince B\u00e1thory G\u00e1bor of Transylvania obliged the nobility to participate in bearing the town's burdens and reaffirmed the town's privileges. This did not end the conflicts however, and the nobles also made complaints that the burghers of D\u00e9s collected larger duty on the ferry than allowed.@November 20, 1616|Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania crushed the hajd\u00fa army of Gombos Andr\u00e1s breaking into Transylvania near D\u00e9s.@#15|@#16|@#17|@#18|@1657|Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy II of Transylvania launched a campaign for the crown of Poland in alliance with Carl X Gustaf of Sweden. His aim was to unite the Hungarian-Polish-Wallachian forces against the Turks. The campaign started successfully with the prince taking Krak\u00f3w and Warsawa, but then the King of Sweden abandoned him. The vengeful Poles invaded northern Transylvania, burning defenceless villages, destroying churches and castles. Soon the punitive campaign of Turkish and Tatar armies devastated Transylvania, as the prince launched his Polish campaign against the Sultan's will.@1660|The Turks occupied V\u00e1rad and many nobles fled to D\u00e9s. After the death of Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy II, the German army called in by Prince Kem\u00e9ny J\u00e1nos prevented the Turks from taking D\u00e9s as well.@1661|The army of Pasha Seydi Ahmed of Buda marched into Transylvania, after the country assembly held in Beszterce on 23 April declared the independence of Transylvania from the Ottoman Empire and placed the country under the protection of Emperor Leopold I. On 14 September, Pasha Ali forced the country assembly to elect Apafi Mih\u00e1ly Prince of Transylvania in Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely.@1665|The country assembly of Transylvania allowed the refugees of V\u00e1rad to occupy the empty plots of D\u00e9s and to enjoy the rights of the burghers of the town. They also ordered the town to be surrounded by strong palisade.@1668|Prince Apafi Mih\u00e1ly of Transylvania granted D\u00e9s the status of the noble towns. From then on, its leader was not called judge, but lieutenant, and was elected by the county assembly from among the persons recommended by the people of the town.@#23|@#25|@1687, 1688|German troops marched across the town twice, causing even greater suffering to the town than the Turks.@#26|@1697|Fire devastated the town.@#27|@1704, 1706|The imperial army of Tiege sacked and burned the town.@1707|The Hungarian country assembly gave the town exemption from public burdens for one year because of the destruction caused by the imperials.@first half of the 18th century|The town was constantly under military occupation, which put a heavy burden on the population. The military consisted of mostly Germans, who harassed the Hungarian population. Moreover, most of the population was Calvinist, while the imperial power spread Catholicism with the assistance of the military.@1717|Crimean Tatars sacked D\u00e9s. Neither the castle, nor the town walls can be seen today. The Habsburg-Turkish war broke out in 1716, as a result of which the Turks were driven out of Temesk\u00f6z (the plains south of the Maros River) and Belgrade was also liberated. The Turks unleashed the Tatar hordes on Transylvania, which was the last Tatar invasion against Hungary. The Tatars were driven back by the armies of the nobility of the counties and by the population that rose up against the intruders. The decimated, mainly Hungarian, population was replenished by new Vlach migrants.@18th century|Orthodox Vlachs started to settle in D\u00e9s.@second half of the 18th century|Salt mining ceased at that time.@#28|@November 22, 1848|Imperial troops defeated the army of Major Katona Mikl\u00f3s here.@December 23, 1848|Having launched a counter attack, General Bem J\u00f3zsef broke the imperial front line into two at D\u00e9s and liberated Kolozsv\u00e1r, the capitol of Transylvania, on 25 December.@August 20, 1849|The Russian and Austrian armies invaded and looted D\u00e9s.@1862|A hospital was opened.@#30|@1874|Civil boy's school was established.@1879|Civil girl's school was established.@1897|A Hungarian royal state grammar school was established.@1910|Of its 11,452 inhabitants 7,991 were Hungarians, 2,911 were Vlachs (Romanians) and 445 were Germans.@#31|@1916|On 27 August, Romania declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and launched an attack against Hungary. This triggered a huge wave of refugees from Transylvania, as the population feared a repeat of the Romanian ethnic cleansing of 1848-49. Austro-Hungarian and German forces drove the invaders out of the country by mid-October and occupied Bucharest on 6 December. Romania surrendered and signed a peace treaty with the central powers on 7 May 1918 (Treaty of Bucharest).@1918|On 3 November, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy signed the Armistice of Padua. The already defeated Romania then declared war on Germany on 10 November, just one day before the Germans signed the armistice near Compi\u00e8gne. The Romanians then launched an offensive against Hungary, which had already unconditionally ceased fighting at the demand of the Entente. Romania was only recognised by the Entente powers as one of the victors of WWI only later.@#32|@from 1918|By 1922, 197,000 Hungarians were forced to leave the Romanian-occupied part of the country. By 1939 a further 169,000 Hungarians had left Transylvania, mostly aristocrats, intellectuals and a significant number of farmers. Most of them moved to Hungary. Before the Romanian invasion, 1,662,000 Hungarians lived in Transylvania, 32 percent of the population.@#36|@#39|@#43|@from the 1950s|800,000 Romanians were settled in Transylvania from Moldavia, but many also came from Wallachia. The aim was to Romanianize the still majorly Hungarian towns and to break up the ethnic Hungarian blocks. While previously there was a Romanian majority in only a few small towns, this has been reversed by now.@20th century|Due to Romanian migration and persecutions, Hungarians became a minority in the town.@2002|7.2 million people lived in Transylvania, including 1.42 million Hungarians. There were 1.65 million Hungarians out of 5.2 million in 1910. The proportion of the Romanians increased from 53.78% to 74.69%, while the proportion of the Hungarians decreased from 31.64% to 19.6%. The proportion of the Germans dropped from 10.75% to below 1%. These changes were mainly the results of migration and the persecution of Hungarians and Saxons. Transylvania here refers to the entire territory that once belonged to Hungary, which is much larger than historical Transylvania.&adatbank.transindex.ro: D\u00e9s t\u00f6rt\u00e9nete|http:\/\/adatbank.transindex.ro\/html\/alcim_pdf12884.pdf"},"sights":[{"sightId":1483,"townId":62,"active":1,"name_LO":"Biserica Reformat\u0103","address":"Pia\u0163a Bob\u00e2lna","mapdata":"1|550|725","gps_lat":"47.1429692389","gps_long":"23.8736935232","religion":2,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Reformatus-templom-Des-485","csemadoklink":"https:\/\/lexikon.adatbank.transindex.ro\/muemlek.php?id=367","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Deutsch: K.u.k. 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Its priest, named Peter, is mentioned in the papal tithe register of 1332.@\nIn the 15th century, a parish church dedicated to King St Stephen was built outside the castle in the main square, proclaiming the independence of the town's burghers. The church was first mentioned by documents mention in 1453. The date, 1477, on the medieval bell, may indicate the year of the tower's completion. The old church was destroyed at the time of the Reformation, and in 1578 the town magistrate F\u00e1bius (Kov\u00e1cs) had a memorial tower built from its remains. The tower was blown up by Romanian nationalists in 1938.@\nIn 1475, the parish priest P\u00e1l and the Prior Imre of the Order of St. Augustine concluded a treaty before the town judge Kondori J\u00e1nos, which defined the municipal jurisdiction of the two institutions.@\nIn 1530, King John I of Hungary granted the parish priest a licence to build a mill. From 1554 the church was used by the Lutherans. From 1558 it became Reformed (Calvinist), from 1568 Unitarian. In 1588 the church was repaired. In 1591 the town and the church burned down, so Prince B\u00e1thory Zsigmond of Transylvania forgave the town's three years' tax. In 1612, during the reign of Prince B\u00e1thory G\u00e1bor, the burghers of D\u00e9s enlarged the castle surrounding the church to protect the town. In the 17th century, under Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor or Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I, the church was taken back by the Calvinists. Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I of Transylvania (1630-1648) had it renovated starting in 1634, and after the fire of 1642 he had a new ceiling made with \u00c1cs J\u00e1nos. The works were completed in 1650. This ceiling was destroyed in the fires of 1697 and 1707.@\nIn 1706, the church was sacked by the Austrian soldiers of General Tiege, who, through treachery, also seized the buried church treasures.@\nThe new ceiling was made in 1726 with the support of Petki Nagy Zsigmond, and in 1720 he also supported the construction of the western choir. In 1765, the eastern and northern galleries were built with the support of Magyarfr\u00e1tai Farkas J\u00e1nos and his wife. The coffered ceiling of the nave was built in 1779. In the 1880s, the defensive walls surrounding the church were demolished and replaced by the historicised stone fence that can be seen today. Its tower is 72 m high, with four turrets, and it served as a model for the Vlach wooden churches of M\u00e1ramaros."},{"sightId":1484,"townId":62,"active":1,"name_LO":"Biserica Franciscan\u0103","address":"Strada 22 Decembrie 1989 16","mapdata":"1|881|734","gps_lat":"47.1428636313","gps_long":"23.8762864945","religion":1,"oldtype":"9","newtype":"1","homepage":"https:\/\/ersekseg.ro\/hu\/templom\/919","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Drugs.bunny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Biserica_catolica_dej.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Biserica catolica dej\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e3\/Biserica_catolica_dej.jpg\/256px-Biserica_catolica_dej.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Biserica_catolica_dej.jpg\u0022\u003EDrugs.bunny\u003C\/a\u003E, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","name":"St. Anthony of Padua Franciscan Church and Monastery","seolink":"st-anthony-of-padua-franciscan-church-and-monastery","note":"","history":"The oldest church in D\u00e9s was built by the Augustinian monks in the 12th century. In 1703, after the Reformation, Franciscan Father Lamprich Imre arrived in the town, but he could not stay because of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1703 and 1711. From 1712 Fr. Verner Konr\u00e1d celebrated mass in the remains of the Augustinian monastery. He built 4 cells and a small chapel. The parish church was completed by 1730. In 1756, a cemetery chapel was built on the Rose Hill in honour of the Ascension of Our Lord.@\nIn 1952, a large group of Franciscans were taken into custody in D\u00e9s, and the leadership was based here until they were imprisoned. B\u00f6jte Csaba also began his monastic life in this monastery.@\nFrom 1750 there was also an elementary school. The Sisters of Mercy ran a boys' school from 1829 and a girls' school from 1864. In 1929 the grammar school was closed. 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In 1925, the town council decided to re-establish the museum."},{"sightId":1499,"townId":62,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Strada \u021aible\u0219ului","mapdata":"1|874|1509","gps_lat":"47.1384171457","gps_long":"23.8764319982","religion":0,"oldtype":"38","newtype":"38","homepage":"https:\/\/turism-dej.ro\/resurse-turistice\/obiective-turistice\/the-lion-monument","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"","picture":"","picture_ref":"","name":"Lion Memorial to the First Battle of D\u00e9s during the Hungarian War of Independence in 1848","seolink":"lion-memorial-to-the-first-battle-of-des-during-the-hungarian-war-of-independence-in-1848","note":"","history":"The monument was erected on 2 July 1889 in memory of the Hungarian soldiers who fell on 24 November 1848 in the Hungarian War of Independence. 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