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Hunedoara is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Transylvania region, with the capital city at Deva (population: 77,259). Its common abbreviation is HD.
In 2000, it had a population of 536,165 and the population density was 76/km².
This county has a total area of 7,063 km² . Hunedoara county lies īn South-Western Transylvania, bordered by Apuseni Mountains (North), Orastie and Surianu Mountains (South-East), Retezat Mountains (South), Poiana Ruscai Mountains (South-West) and crossed by Mures, Rau Mare, Strei, Crisul Alb and Jiu rivers, with large depressions such as Zarand and Hateg. Retezat National Park and other pictoresque regions makes it one of the most beautiful counties in Romania.
Its history begins along with the Dacians, who built a strong defensive system of fortresses in Orastie Mountains, nowadays part of UNESCO World Heritage. After the Roman conquest, the capital of Dacia province was also established here, in Hateg depression, named Colonia Augusta Ulpia Traiana Dacica Sarmizegetusa, last name after the former Dacian capital. After the Romans left Dacia, the first pre-feudal entities apperead: Deva, Strei, Dobra, Hunedoara. After the Hungarian conquest of Transylvania, Hunedoara became a county.
During the Middle Ages, in the town of Hunedoara, the Corvins, a powerful Romanian feudal family from Transylvania, part of which is King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, founded the most important Gothic style secular building in Romania - The Corvins Castle.
The capital of the county is DevaAlternate meanings: see Deva (disambiguation Deva is a Romanian city situated on the left bank of the middle course of the Mures river. It is the capital of Hunedoara county The name Deva is considered to come from the ancient Dacian word "dava" meaning f. Other important cities are Hunedoara, Petrosani, Orastie, Hateg and Brad. Petrosani is a very important city in Romania nowadays, being the key town in JiuJiu (-Romanian, in Hungarian Zsil is a river in Romania. It is formed by the confluence of the western and eastern Jiu near the city Petrosani in Transylvania, in the southern Carpathian Mountains (Retezat mountains). It flows through the Romanian countie Valley, a very delicate Romanian area, due to its numberous unemployed former miners.