Cetatea de Baltă is a commune in Alba County

Alba County

Alba is a county of Romania, in Transylvania, its capital city being Alba-Iulia with a population of 66,406.- Demographics :In 2002, it had a population of 382,747 and the population density was 61/km².* Romanians - 90.4%* Hungarians - 5.4%...

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 with a population of 3217. It is located between Târnăveni

Târnaveni

Târnăveni is a city and municipality in central Romania, Mureş County. It lies on the Târnava Mică River in central Transylvania. The city administers three villages: Bobohalma, Botorca and Cuştelnic; the last was part of Găneşti Commune until 2002....

 at 15 kilometers and Blaj

Blaj

Blaj is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 20,758 inhabitants.The landmark of the city is the fact that it was the principal religious and cultural center of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania....

 at 21 kilometers on the county road DJ 117. The commune is composed of four villages: Cetatea de Baltă, Crăciunelu de Sus (Christendorf; Felsőkarácsonyfalva), Sântămărie (Frauenkirch; Boldogfalva) and Tătârlaua (Taterloch; Felsőtatárlaka).

Population

According to the 2002 census, the commune has 3217 inhabitans, including of whom 53.6% are Romanians

Romanians

The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....

, 25.9% Roma, 19.4% Hungarians and 0.9% Germans

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

.

The villages by ethnic majority:

In Romanian Romanian language Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...	In Hungarian Hungarian language Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....	Ethnic majority
Cetatea de Baltă	Küküllővár	Romanians
Crăciunelu de Sus	Felsőkarácsonfalva	Romanians
Săntămărie	Boldogfalva	Hungarians
Tătârlaua	Felsőtatárlaka	Roma

Touristic sights

• The Bethlen Castle, built in the 16th century in the French Renaissance
  French Renaissance
  French Renaissance is a recent term used to describe a cultural and artistic movement in France from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated in northern Italy in the fourteenth century...
  
   style and restored in the 17th-18th centuries in the Baroque
  Baroque
  The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
  
   style.
• A fortress (1st century BC-1st century AD), today only ruins.
• The Reformed Church, a 13th century building.

Economy

The most important economic resource is agriculture. Cetatea de Baltă is part of the Târnave Vineyard

Târnave Vineyard

The Târnave wine region is situated just north of Sibiu surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains. It is one of the most important and oldest in Romania,being mentioned by Herodot about 600 b.C....

, making viticulture

Viticulture

Viticulture is the science, production and study of grapes which deals with the series of events that occur in the vineyard. When the grapes are used for winemaking, it is also known as viniculture...

an essential component of the local economy.