Luduș (; Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation: , German: Ludasch) is a town in Transylvania, Romania in Mureș County, south-west from the county's capital, Târgu Mureș.
Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămești (Eckentelep), Cioarga (Csorga), Ciurgău (Csorgó), Fundătura (Mezőalbisitelep or Belsőtelep), Gheja (Marosgezse), and Roșiori (Andrássytelep).
History 1330 – First mentioned as Plehanus de Ludas. 1377 – Mentioned in a transaction between two Hungarian nobles. 1930 – 5,085 inhabitants. 1940 to 1944, Hungarians occupied the town. The Jewish population is murdered during the Luduș massacre from 5 to 13 September 1944. 1960 - Luduș became a town. 1966 - 11,794 inhabitants. 2002 - 17,497 inhabitants.
Demographics In 1850, the town had 1,166 inhabitants; the ethnic composition of the town according to the 1850 census was: 1,065 (91.34%) Romanians and 34 (2.92%) Hungarians.Varga E. Árpád:Statistics on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliations of Transylvania, Census data, 1850–2002 In 1910, the town had 4,632 inhabitants; the ethnic composition of the town according to the 1910 census was: 3,116 (67.27%) Hungarians and 1,385 (29.9%) Romanians.
At the 2011 census, it had a population of 15,328; out of them, 65.9% were Romanians, 23.2% Hungarians, and 6.3% Roma.Tab8. Populația stabilă după etnie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 3 March 2020. At the 2021 census, Luduș had a population of 14,757; of those, 63.69% were Romanians, 18.87% Hungarians, and 7.79% Roma.
Demographic movement of the population according to the census data:
Notable people
Dănuț Borbil (born 1973), professional Romanian arm-wrestler Andreo Cseh (1895–1979), Hungarian/Dutch Roman Catholic priest Cornel Gheți (born 1986), Romanian footballer Pompeiu Hărășteanu (1935–2016), Romanian operatic bass/basso profondo Ella Kovacs (born 1964), Romanian middle-distance runner Sergiu Mândrean (born 1978), Romanian footballer Horațiu Pungea (born 1986), Romanian rugby union player László Sepsi (born 1987), Romanian footballer Tara (von Neudorf) (born 1974), Romanian artist
See also List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureș County)
Notes
External links
Luduș online Datasheet of Luduș in Transylvanian Hungarian Database Bánffy Castle