Beclean
Beclean is a town in Bistrița-Năsăud County, in north-eastern Transylvania, Romania. It had 10,628 inhabitants at the 2011 census. 81.6% of these were Romanians, 14.2% Hungarians and 3.7% Roma.
The town administers three villages: Coldău, Figa and Rusu de Jos. It is the site of an important railway junction, where secondary routes to Sighetu Marmației and Suceava diverge from the main railway line from Brașov to Satu Mare.History
The town of Beclean is also the ancestral seat of the Hungarian Bethlen family.
