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The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (also called Black March, Hungarian: Fekete Március) 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.

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  • Demonstration for Hungarian education, Targu Mures, 1990

    Demonstration for Hungarian education

  • Fekete marcius 1

    Romanian troops on the streets of Târgu Mureș

  • Fekete marcius 2

    Destroyed buses

  • Andras Suto

    Hungarian writer András Sütő

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