Why is it called Cluj-Napoca?
The modern city of Cluj-Napoca was founded by German settlers as Klausenburg in the 13th Century. The name “Napoca” was added to the traditional Romanian city name “Cluj” by dictator Nicolae CeauČ™escu in 1974 as a means of asserting Romanian claims to the region on the basis of the theory of Daco-Roman Continuity. What is…