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Nemertea is a village in Romania, located in the mountainous northwestern part of Buzău County. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Gura Teghii.

History
The village was founded by Hungarian-speaking Szekler settlers from Transylvania who crossed the Carpathians and settled down in the southern slopes of the mountains. The village was a part of the ancient Săcuieni County whose name originated from the once-significant Szekler Hungarian population who used to live there. The name of the village comes from the Hungarian phrase 'nem értem,' meaning 'I do not understand,' as the population of the isolated settlement preserved their language for a long time and did not linguistically assimilate into neighboring Romanians and as such, whenever interacting with ethnic Romanian inhabitants of the region, the above phrase was so commonplace that the region's ethnic Romanians began to refer to the village as Nemertem (later transformed into its current form Nemertea), and to its inhabitants as nemerţeni. The inhabitants, not having had access to Hungarian priests, lost their original Catholic religion and converted to Orthodoxy, and eventually assimilated into Romanians as well.

Demographics
In 1930, Nemertea had 214 inhabitants, all Romanian Orthodox.

According to the 2011 Romanian census, the village had 395 Romanian inhabitants.