Cluj County: a Historical Overview
Cluj County: A Historical Overview IOAN-AUREL POP HE CLUJ County of today, located in the northwes mented on the territory of Cluj County, in all of its stages tern part of what was once the voivodate of Tran of development. The evidence uncovered here includes dwel Tsylvania, is a fairly recent administrative-territorial lings with a typically Dacian inventory, dominant being the unit (established in 1968) and therefore cannot be said to ornamental vessels with protruding knobs, made of burnt have a centuries-old historical tradition of its own, at least clay, and the Dacian beakers, shaped by hand, as well as the not within its current boundaries. The county of today was larger and sometimes huge vessels, made on the potter's preceded by other forms of administrative organization, which wheel. The settlement located on the banks of the Someşul only partially overlapped its present-day territory. Conseque Mic River, on the present location of Cluj city, called Napuca ntly, within the county we can speak of certain areas with a by the geographer Ptolemy (2'"1 century A.D.), was a thriv historical identity of their own, such as the city of Cluj- ing community and was considered to be "one of the most Napoca, with its surrounding region, and the areas of Turda, splendid cities of Dacia." Today's Turda (Potaissa, Potavissa) Gherla, Dej, and Huedin. was also once a Dacian settlement, and smaller such settle The first traces of human habitation in this area date from ments existed at Dezmir and Cojocna. For the Second Iron time immemorial.
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