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November 8, 2019 7:46 am at 7:46 am
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@Billywee
It doesn’t matter what the name means in Romanian, because it is from an old Hungarian name hundreds of years before there was a Romania.
More than 1000 years ago it was known as castrum Zotmar (Zotmar’s fort), a defensive position named for a prominent individual or family. Castrum has the same Latin root as Castle, a fortified building used for defense.