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Statue of Emil Dandea

Statue of Emil Dandea
Statuia Emil Dandea, in fata Bisericii Buna Vestire
Mariagat, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, 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:
46.5419994307, 24.5575500841
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History

After the Romanian invasion in 1918, the mayor of the almost entirely Hungarian town had to be Romanian, and he was called Dandea. He started to change the character of the town, which managed to preserve its Hungarian majority until the 1990s. The statue made by Anton Rațiu was unveiled in 1996.

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