DESCOPERIREA, REPREZENTAREA ŞI MENŢINEREA INTERESULUI PENTRU SCAUNUL ARIEŞ
Discovery, Representation and Perpetual Interest in Aries Seat

Summary/Abstract: Aries Seat, the seventh Szeckler chair, topographically isolated fromthe rest of the Szeckler Seats, forms a historical region, a small-scaleethnographic area, which was originally composed of 29 localities, and later wascomposed of only 22 localities. The Seat, as an administrative unit, with its 22localities, operated until 1876, when it was finally dissolved and merged withpart of the shire of Turda, thus constituting the Turda-Aries Shire. Currently (asof new administrative-territorial division of the Country in counties in 1937,1950, 1968), Aries Seat localities are part of Alba county and Cluj county.The interest in the Aries Seat and the discovery of this ethnographicarea appeared in the second half of the 19th century, and was largely due to theethnographers Jankó János and Balázs Orbán. During the 19th and 20thcenturies, a large number of articles and studies appeared in various specializedpublications and in periodicals which treated various specific aspects of thisarea. The area is also represented in fiction literature by the work of severalwell-known Hungarian authors.Attempts to attract and maintain attention to the values of the region,the research in the area and then synthesizing the research results in collectionsand monographs have been made several times over the past two centuries.The various research campaigns, the large number of publications,indicate us that the interest in this area has not diminished with time. On thecontrary, we can say that the interest in this area was maintained over time andis still alive.

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