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Targu MuresTrgu Mureş (Hungarian: Marosvsrhely, German: Neumarkt) is a city in Mureş county, Transylvania, Romania, with a population of 149,000, more than 40% of whom are ethnic Hungarians. The city was first documented in 1332 in the papal registry under the name Novum Forum Siculorum. In 1405 the King of Hungary Sigismund of Luxembourg granted the city of Trgu Mureş (by then named Szkelyvsrhely, see Szkely) the right to organize fairs and in 1482 the King Matthias Corvinus declared the city a royal settlement. It became a municipality in 1616, changing its name to Marosvsrhely, the Hungarian equivalent of Trgu Mureş. In 1754 in Trgu Mureş become home to the supreme court of justice of Transylvania which provided a major boost to the city's social and economic life. Avram Iancu, the leader of the Romanian 1848 revolution from Transylvania, was a young lawyer in the city of Trgu Mureş before engaging in the fight for the rights of Romanians living in Transylvania. After 1918 the city of Trgu Mureş, like the rest of Transylvania, was taken out of the control of the Austro-Hungarian empire and become part of Romania. As a consequence it started to have a significant economic success that lasted until World War II. The old provincial appearance changed greatly in this period. The spectacular city hall was built thanks to the economic success of the 1920s. From 1940, under the Second Vienna Award, the city of Mureş was temporarily occupied by then-fascist Hungary. The anti-Semitic and anti-Romanian policy promoted by fascist Hungary seriously undermined the economic and demographic potential of the city. It re-entered the Romanian administration after 1944 when the Romanian army succeeded in reoccupying it. After WWII, the communist administration of Romania conducted a policy of massive industrialization that completely re-shaped the community. Trgu Mureş became the center of economic and social life of the region. In March 1990, shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 overthrew the communist regime, Trgu Mureş was the stage of violent confrontations between ethnic Hungarians and Romanians that were ended quickly by the Romanian government. (See Ethnic clashes of Targu Mures.) As of 2000, a considerable percentage of the population of Trgu Mureş has started to work abroad temporarily. The local economy has started to get stronger after various investors settled in the area. Trgu Mureş is the home of Avram Iancu, Alexandru Papiu Ilarian, Farkas Bolyai, Janos Bolyai, and Petru Maior. External links
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