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Replica of the Capitoline Wolf

Replica of the Capitoline Wolf
Marosvásárhely 01
Taz666, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Settlement:
Marosvásárhely, Târgu Mureș
Address:
Piața Victoriei
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.5428230273, 24.5578243622
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History

After the First World War, Italy donated five copies of the statue of the Capitoline Wolf to Romania, in recognition of the Romanians' supposed Latin origin. The Romanians erected them in the Hungarian majority cities of the freshly conquered Transylvania. One of the bronze statues was erected in 1924 in Marosvásárhely, in the park in front of the Palace of Public Administration (former Town Hall).

Ironically, in 1940, the Hungarian city was returned to Hungary through the diplomatic intervention of Italy (Second Vienna Award), which was keen to revive the Roman Empire.

The leaving Vlach invaders transported the statue to Torda, where it still stands today. In 1991, the Romanian occupiers of the city made a replica and re-installed it in front of the Palace of Public Administration.

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