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Memorial to Horia, Cloșca and Crișan

Memorial to Horia, Cloșca and Crișan
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Settlement:
Déva, Deva
Address:
Strada 1 Decembrie
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.8856541743, 22.8986488299
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History

It commemorates the leaders of the 1784 Vlach peasant uprising. Agitated by the Orthodox popes against the Hungarians, the Vlach mob murdered 4,000 Transylvanian inhabitants (mostly Hungarians and Saxons) and burnt 133 settlements during the uprising. Horia and Cloșca were executed by wheel in Gyulafehérvár on 28 February 1785, and Crișán committed suicide in prison. There was no mass reprisal after the uprising. They are now considered national heroes by the Romanians.

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