Feliceni


Feliceni is a commune in Harghita County, Romania, in the vicinity of Odorheiu Secuiesc. It forms part of the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.

Component villages

The commune is composed of eleven villages:
In RomanianIn Hungarian
AlexandrițaSándortelke
ArvățeniÁrvátfalva
CireșeniSükő
FeliceniFelsőboldogfalva
ForțeniFarcád
HoghiaHodgya
OțeniOcfalva
PolonițaSzékelylengyelfalva
TăureniBikafalva
TeleacTelekfalva
VăleniPatakfalva

History

The villages of the commune historically belonged to the Székely seat of Udvarhelyszék, then, from 1876 until 1918, to Udvarhely County in the Kingdom of Hungary. After World War I, by the terms of the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, they became part of Romania.
As a result of the Second Vienna Award, the region belonged again to Hungary between 1940 and 1944. After World War II, it came under Romanian administration and became part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the villages formed part of the Hungarian Autonomous Province, then, of the Mureș-Hungarian Autonomous Province until it was abolished in 1968. Since then, the commune has been part of Harghita County.

Demographics

At the 2011 census, the commune had a population of 3,297; out of them, 97% were Hungarian, 0.9% were Romanian and 0.7% were Roma.

Poloniţa

Polonița is located along the Polonița Creek in a narrow valley. It had 319 inhabitants in 2002, of whom 315 were Hungarians.
The village was first mentioned in 1505 as Lengenfalwa when a certain Balthasar was elected "seat judge" at Udvarhely. In 1533, the name was recorded as Lengyelfalva. In 1899, the ethnonym Székely was added to the Hungarian placename in order to distinguish the locality from another Lengyelfalva of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The Romanian name derives from the Hungarian one and was originally used as Lenghelfalău which was later Romanianized by translation.
Its Roman Catholic church was built in 1802 replacing the medieval church.