Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
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Blaja The locality was documentary attested in 1454 under the name of Balashaza, being situated at a distance of almost 4 km from the town. The territory of the village was inhabited since the Neolithic age, being very rich in archaeological finds, a lot of place names from the border village remembering us about old villages missing today: Pusta, Jolţa, Puste. In the middle ages the village belonged to the domain of Tăşnad being in possession of thefamiliesSzarvadi, Mindszenti, Balázsházi, Vay etc. Petri Mór noted that in 1631 Balázsházi László had a mansion in the village. In the eighteenth century the domain owner became the count Károlyi Antal. The censuses from the eighteenth century demonstrate the demog raphic evolution of the village and the majority presence of Romanian population. The military conscription from 1797 reminds through the great owners, the families Bálint, Guth, Pelei, Halmágyi, Banfy, Recsey and several small Romanian nobles: the families Uglai, Orosz, Darabant, Verdes etc. It was also mentioned the Greek Catholic priest loan Oros and the cantor Teodor Oros. The census from 1850 had noted 342 inhabitants of 296 were Romanian, 24 Hungarian anc^ 19 Hebrew. The population reached the highest level in 1956, with 441 souls, followed by a sharp decline in the number of inhabitants being registered 202 inhabitants in 2011, of which 187 Orthodox, 3 Roman Catholic 3 and 4Calvinsits. The Orthodox Church the Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel The Romanian community from the village built a wooden church since 1720. In the place of the old wooden church, at the initiative of the priest loan Scridon, in 1930 was underpin the present brick church, dedicated to the Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel. Registry parish books existed since 1824 and in 1872 was mentioned a Greek Catholic denominational school which in the twentieth century became a state school. Among the ancient religious books that belonged to the church, we remember: Evanghelia from Blaj, 1765, Cazania published in Bucharest, 1768, a Polustavfrom 1793 printed at Blaj, a Penticostarion, Blaj, 1808, an Apostol, Blaj, 1814 and an Octoih, Blaj, 1825. Clg * fţj The village is situated at a distance of about 7 km from the town, being documentary attested in 1215 under the name of Sugu, Chug, and since 1519 as Chög, name that had been preserved during the whole Hungarian rule (Csög). In the middle ages the locality belonged to the domain of Tăşnad and it was in the property of the bishop of Transylvania, of Csögi family, of the Habsburgs, from the sixteenth century belonged to Gheorghe Rákóczy and in the eighteenth century appeared as lords the families Wesslényi, Vay and then the family of the count Károly. In the land record from 1569 were registered 68 family heads, a large village with a total population of 350- 400 souls! In the conscription of the eighteenth century Cig was mentioned as a Romanian village with a wooden church, priest, cantor and about 300 inhabitants. The census from 1850 had noted 561 inhabitants from which 531 Romanians,
