Type: | commune |
County: | Sibiu |
Population Total: | auto |
Official Name: | Poiana Sibiului |
Established Date: | 1537 |
Coordinates: | 45.8056°N 23.7303°W |
Leader Name: | Adrian-Pavel Iovi[1] |
Leader Party: | PSD |
Leader Term: | 2020 - 2024 |
Area Total Km2: | 23.47 |
Postal Code: | 557180 |
Poiana Sibiului (de|Pojana; hu|Polyán) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Poiana Sibiului. The name means "the glade of Sibiu".
The village is situated in the Cindrel Mountains at an altitude of about 900 meters, 35 km west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area.
The first written account dates from 1537. Compared with the neighbouring villages, Poiana is a later settlement of Romanian population that moved higher in the mountains presumably dislocated by Saxon settlements. The occupation shifted from agriculture to sheep-herding, which remains even today the main occupation.