Luduș

Luduș (Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation :, German: Ludasch) is a town in Transylvania, Romania in Mureș County, 44 km 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
At the 2021 census, Luduș had a population of 14,757. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 15,328; out of them, 65.9% were Romanian, 23.2% were Hungarian, and 6.3% were Roma.

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. 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.

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