Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș

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The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (also called Black March, Hungarian: Fekete Március)[1] are about the violent incidents against the Hungarian ethnic group in Târgu Mureș and surrounding settlements in Transylvania, Romania in March 1990.

The clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. It has been an important cultural and political center for the Hungarian minority in Transylvania.[2]

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  1. Ildikó Lipcsey; Sabin Gherman; Adrian Severin (2006). Romania and Transylvania in the 20th Century. Corvinus Pub. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-882785-15-5.
  2. Guntram Henrik Herb; David H. Kaplan, eds. (1999). Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-8476-8467-0.