| Cata/Katzendorf |

When Johann started from Katzenloch in the early spring, he had already thought about what he was leaving behind. He wasn’t leaving much, but still that was his birthplace and of the three blonde children who were sitting under thick blankets, inside the horse carts that drifted through the ravines. At night the string of horse carts, cattle ...

| Chirpar/Kirchberg |

The settlement was first attested in 1332 in the papal tax lists under the name of Kyrchpech. In 1373 a certain Johann of Kirchpert was mentioned, fact that allows us to presume that a church already existed at that time...

| Cincsor/Kleinschenk |

Four years after the last incursion of the Turks of Evrenos-bei in Transylvania and beyond the mountains, where they were eventually defeated, in 1405 a royal decree decided that the Transylvanian towns had to be strengthened with massive walls. Although in the past the churches of the rural Saxons communities had been damaged by various incursions of the Tartars...

| Cincu / Schenk |

The settlement of Cincu was founded in the 12th century by German colonists on a plateau set between the Olt and Hartibaciu rivers. Its German name, Schenk, comes from the German word for a "pub", called a "Schink". First documented in 1329, the settlement grew quickly in importance and soon became the seat of Schenk.

| Cisnadie/Heltau |

The settlement where the first clock tower from Transylvania and the first lightning rod from the southeast Europe were built, known as a center of cloth processing, was founded during the reign of King Géza II. Priores flandrenses who settled in the middle of the 12th century in the place which would later be called Heltau, brought with them an...

| Cisnadioara / Michelsberg |

In 1223, King Andrei II ratified the agreement by which the deputy to the head priest of the parish of Gocelnius gave to the Cistercian monks at Carta the basilica at Cisnadioara and its respective land. This agreement is the first documented acknowledgement of the settlement at Cisnadioara. It appears that in those times the basilica was in a very early phase of construction, as only the choir and the foundations of the naves had been built. Archaeological digging revealed the fact that a settlement dating back to the Latene period had existed on the hill where St. Michael's church was built.

| Cloasterf/Klosdorf |

The settlement was first mentioned in 1332 in a document from which we find out that Klosdorf belonged to the Abbey of Cârța, together with Criț and Meșendorf; later, around 1500 it was included in the Seat of Sighișoara. The church devoted to Saint Nicholas appeared in ...

| Codlea/Zeiden |

What was that pagan Pecheneg doing on the hills of Codlea in the 12th century? Was he watching the line of Teutonic knights that came here to build a fortress, not of wood as King Andrew II had allowed them, but of stone, as the one in Feldioara? Or had he come together with the Szeklers to defend ...

| Copsa Mare / Grosskopisch |

A free commune of the old Fundus Regius, Copsa Mare used to have some of the most vast and famous vineyards of the region, "The Wine Country". Two churches are mentioned as being used in this town. In the early 14th century, the holy service was recorded as being held in a three-nave gothic basilica; a 1283 document introduces the hypothesis of an earlier church.

| Cristian(Brasov)/Neustadt |

Normally the settlements developed from small to large ones, from villages to towns or capitals. The village of Cristian went in the opposite direction towards the present. If in 1367 it was known as Villa Cristiani and in 1377 as Nova Civitas, it is presently the center of the commune. Once surrounded by the vast forests of the Bârsa Land, ...