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Extract from the Cluj-Napoca Travel Guides:
With its cupolas, Baroque outcroppings and weathered
fin-de-sicle
backstreets, downtown
CLUJ
(Klausenburg to the Germans and Kolozsvr to the Hungarians) looks every inch the Hungarian provincial capital it once was. The town was founded by Germans in the twelfth century for the Hungarian King Geza, and the modern-day Magyars - a third of the city's population - still regrets its decline, fondly recalling the Magyar
belle poque
, when Cluj's caf society and literary reputation surpassed all other cities in the Balkans. Most Romanians think otherwise: for them, Kolozsvr was the city of the Hungarian...
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