Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
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at Căuaş. On the island known as Sighet there was a large fortified settlement, which was part of a tribal center. Archaeological discoveries from the Roman era were made across the localities Tăşnad (thermal bath area), Cehal, Blaja and Cehăluţ. It attests the presence of Dacians and Germans in this region. The material culture of these populations shows a heavy exchange with the Roman provincial area. Town short history The etymology of the name Tăşnad is quite nuanced, because official documents that consistently speak about it haven't been found. The historian Petri Mór, referring to the topic Tăşnad, in his work „Szilágy vármegye Monographiája", he was trying to explain and argue it in the first, referring at the geographical realities of the place, at the wetlands habitat from the meadow of Cehal, where the reed (nád, in Hungarian) grows in abundance in the basins covered by water, forming true lakes during rainy periods (tó in the same language). It follows a compound word, Tó-s-nad, meaning the lake with reed, topic assigned by locals to the south-east of the locality, where such a hydrographic and biogeographic formation existed in ancient times, and by extrapolation it was also awarded to the settlement built on its banks. Another opinion held by the same author refers to an annotation of Anonymus, the notary of King Béla III, who mentions in Gesta Hungarorum that the king Arpad sent in the region a troop of horsemen led by Tas (Thosu) that settled his camp near a lake with reeds. Thus appeared the phrase Tasnadja, the plant being associated with the name of the captain and meaning the reed of Tas. Therefore, the topic of Tăşnad, probably of Hungarian origin (with direct reference to a „swampy place") underwent numerous semantic adaptations over time determined by its form, partially different in Romanian and German, such as: „possessio Tasnad" (1246); Tasnad (1279); Thasnad (1299), Oppidum Thasnad (1456), Taschnath (1600); Taschnad (1753); Tosnád, Tesnádu, Tressenberg, Trestenburg (1808); Tasnád (1854), Tăşnad (1929). Tăşnad was mentioned for the first time in the period following the first Mongol invasion since 1246. From the administrative point of view, the settlement was part of Solnocu de Mijloc (the future Sălaj). More importantly was its status in the great ecclesiastical administration of the Romano Catholic Diocese of Transylvania: he represented throughout the Middle Ages, the center of the parts beyond the Meseş Vicariate of the Transylvania Episcopacy. The entire territory gained a sort of autonomy within the bishopric and the vicar's duty included besides administering justice, exercising the latter office of provisor, administering the episcopal estates over the Meseş and collecting tithes. In 1456 became oppidum (fair), being less than a city, but a more important place than a village. Gradually, Tăşnad became the second important trade fair from Solnocu de Mijloc. Two decades later, the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, gave the permission to Transylvania bishop to build a fortress of wood or stone on his estate from Tăşnad. About the form or history
