Poiana Sibiului
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| Poiana Sibiului | |
  Poiana Sibiului
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| Country |  Romania |
| County | Sibiu County |
| Status | Commune |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Lazăr Constantin (Conservative Party) |
| Area | |
| - Total | 23.47 km² (9.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2002) | |
| - Total | 2,807 |
| - Density | 119/km² (308.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal Code | 557180 |
| Website: http://www.cjsibiu.ro/ro/poiana.php | |
For other uses of "Poiana", see Poiana (disambiguation).
Poiana Sibiului is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. The name means "the glade of Sibiu".
[edit] Position
The village is situated in the Cindrel Mountains at an altitude of about 900 meters, 35 km west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area.
[edit] History
The first written account dates from 1537. Compared with the neighbouring villages, Poiana is a later settlement of Romanian population that moved higher in the mountains presumably dislocated by Saxon settlements. The occupation shifted from agriculture to sheep-herding, which remains even today the main occupation.
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