#alba county

• Aiud — A municipality in Alba County, Transylvania region, situated on the middle course of the Mureș River. The locality holds significant historical and cultural importance, being documented since antiquity as a Roman settlement (Brucla) and later, in the 13th century, under its current name. The city is internationally recognized for its fortified medieval citadel (14th-16th centuries), the historical academic college founded by Gabriel Bethlen, and for the grim memory of its communist-era prison, where numerous political prisoners were held, functioning today as a major point of historical reference.
• Alba — The name of a county in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania, with its seat in the municipality of Alba Iulia; also, the term constitutes the first element of famous toponyms (Alba Iulia, Cetatea Alba). Written with a capital letter, the noun individualizes a major administrative-territorial unit, historically recognized for its essential role in the Great Union of 1918.
• Almașu Mare — The name of a commune and its homonymous residential village located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, situated in the Metaliferi Mountains. The region is famous since antiquity (the Daco-Roman period) for its rich gold and precious metal mining operations, while also hosting spectacular natural monuments such as the Cibul or Glod Gorges and a valuable local ethnographic museum.
• Alvinț — An old regional form, archaic phonetic variant, or popular name used in the past for the Vințu de Jos locality in Alba county (structurally correlated with the Hungarian name Alvinc or Saxon Alwintz); a geographic and historical reference point in Transylvania. It appears documented in Transylvanian administrative charters and travelogues from past centuries to denote the settlement located on the banks of the Mureș River.
• Ampoi River — The name of a river in western Romania, located within the administrative territory of Alba County, which flows for approximately 60 kilometers from its source in the northeastern Metaliferi Mountains until it empties as a right tributary into the Mureș River downstream of Alba Iulia. Its valley serves as an important geographical, historical, and economic axis, structurally separating the Metaliferi Mountains from the Trascău Mountains and housing historical towns such as Zlatna.
• Armindeni — The plural form for the homonymous holiday or ritual pole, used regionally to designate the festive timeframe around May 1st. Geographically, the term represents a toponymic proper name borne by villages or hamlets in the Romanian territory (such as Armindeni village in Alba county), whose naming is historically linked to the collective celebration of these spring rites.