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Romanian. According to the 1910 census, from 12,193 inhabitants 7,748 (63.54%) were Hungarian, 3,250 Romanian (26.65%) and 831 (6.82%) German. At the 2002 census, 83.3% of the city's inhabitants were
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artistic summer camps organized by the Petroșani
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mountains. The city administers four villages: Dâlja Mare (
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the Petroșani Days festival, usually organized in autumn
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took control of Petroșani in
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1006:(born 1968), football player and manager
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