Săliștea

Săliștea (German: Tschorren; Hungarian: Alsócsóra), known as Cioara until 1965, is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania.

The bordering communes are Blandiana in the north, Vințu de Jos in the north-east, Pianu in the east, the town of Cugir in the west and Șibot in the south.

The other village, Drejman, was attested in a document from 29 June 1375, when by order of king Louis I of Hungary, villa Drasman is inherited by Reneriu's granddaughters.

It is possible that the stream Cioara was named after the famous inn close to the village of Archișul Românesc and Drejman, that had as an emblem a crow (in Romanian: cioară or corb).

As a response to Sofronie's movement, the Austrian military commander systematically destroyed the monasteries in Transylvania that had served as centres of the uprising, including the one in Cioara.

In the end however, The Orthodox achieved a notable victory: recognition by the court of Vienna of the legal existence of their church and the appointment of a bishop in person of Dionisije Novaković.

[3] Several historians also showed the involvement of several villagers from Cioara in the Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan[4] and the Transylvanian Memorandum movement.

Neolithic clay amulet (retouched), part of the Tărtăria tablets set, dated to 5500–5300 BC and associated with the Turdaș-Vinča culture . The Vinča symbols on it predate the proto- Sumerian pictographic script. Discovered in 1961 at Tărtăria by the archaeologist Nicolae Vlassa .
Picture of Sofronie of Cioara (third from left to right)