page_title: Armenians of Romania
section_title: Transylvania
hierarchical_section_title: Armenians of Romania / History / Transylvania
caption_attribution_description: Română: Persoanele declarate drept armeni la recensământul organizat de autorităţile habsburgice în Transilvania în anul 1850. Harta reprezintă limitele administrative actuale: judeţe, comune, oraşe.
context_page_description: Armenians have been present in what is now Romania and Moldova for over a millennium, and have been an important presence as traders since the 14th century. Numbering only in the thousands in modern times, they were culturally suppressed in the Communist era, but have undergone a cultural revival since the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
context_section_description: Armenians were present from early on in Transylvania, clearly attested in a document issued by Hungarian King Ladislaus IV the Cuman (late 13th century). Here, they were even allowed to found their own trading towns, the most notable one being Gherla, called Armenopolis/Armenierstadt or Hayakaghak (Հայաքաղաք). The second important Armenian town in Transylvania is Dumbrăveni (Elisabethstadt).
  Despite their increasing autonomy, the townspeople's adherence to the Roman Catholic Church was nonetheless demanded (a conversion begun through the efforts of a Botoșani-born prelate, Oxendius Vărzărescu), and further submitted to forced integration by the Habsburg monarchy since the 18th century. The Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania is nowadays centered on Gherla, and is placed under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Roman-Catholic Church archbishops of Alba Iulia.
  Most Armenians from Transylvania were magyarized in the last half of the 19th century.
caption: Armenians of Transylvania (1850)
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