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Enclosure wall of the fortified church in H?rman, Honigberg, Szászhermány is a commune in Bra?ov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, H?rman and Podu Oltului (Vámoshíd). The commune is located some 10 km east of Bra?ov, in the Burzenland region of southeastern Transylvania.H?rman was established and long inhabited mainly by Transylvanian Saxons.At the 2011 census, 90.6% of inhabitants were Romanians, 4.7% Roma, 2.3% Hungarians and 1.2% Germans. The south-eastern Transylvania region in Romania currently has one of the highest numbers of existing fortified churches from the 13th to 16th centuries. It has more than 150 well preserved fortified churches of a great variety of architectural styles (out of an original 300 fortified churches).Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania are seven villages (six Saxon and one Székely) founded by the Transylvanian Saxons. They are dominated by fortified churches and characterized by a specific settlement pattern that has been preserved since the Late Middle Ages.

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