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===Hungarian community=== [[File:Matei Corvin house Cluj-Napoca.jpg|thumb|[[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary|Matthias Corvinus]] Alley, facing the birthplace of the eponymous [[King of Hungary]]]] Almost 50,000 [[Hungarians in Romania|Hungarians]] live in Cluj-Napoca. The city is home to the second-largest urban Hungarian community in Romania, after [[Târgu Mureș]],<ref name="INS-2013"/> with an active cultural and academic life: the city features a [[Hungarian Theatre of Cluj|Hungarian state theatre]] and [[Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera|opera]], as well as Hungarian research institutions, such as ''Erdélyi Múzeumi Egyesület'' (EME), ''Erdélyi Magyar Műszaki Tudományos Társaság'' and ''Bolyai Társaság''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kiss |first=Dénes |title=Romániai magyar kulturális intézmények adatbázisa |url=http://kulturalis.adatbank.transindex.ro/?a=keres&telepules=146 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327152448/http://kulturalis.adatbank.transindex.ro/?a=keres&telepules=146 |archive-date=27 March 2008 |access-date=2008-03-18 |language=hu}}</ref> With respect to religious affairs, the city houses central offices for the [[Reformed Church in Romania|Reformed]] Diocese of Transylvania, the [[Unitarian Church of Transylvania|Unitarian]] Diocese and an Evangelical Lutheran Church Diocese (all of which train their clergy at the [[Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj]]). Several newspapers and magazines are published in the [[Hungarian language]], yet the community also receives public and private television and radio broadcasts (see [[Cluj-Napoca#Culture and media|Culture and media]]). {{As of|2007}}, 7,000 students attended courses in the 55 Hungarian-language specialisations at the [[Babeș-Bolyai University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Babeș-Bolyai University today |url=http://www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/publice/files/statistica.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627181915/http://www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/publice/files/statistica.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2008 |access-date=2008-03-12 |publisher=UBB |language=ro}}</ref> [[Gheorghe Funar]], mayor of Cluj-Napoca from 1992 to 2004, was notorious for acts of ethnic provocation, bedecking the city's streets in the colours of the Romanian flag and arranging pickets outside the city's Hungarian consulate; however, tensions have subsided since.<ref name="Financial Times-2008"/> Since 2010, the [[Hungarian Cultural Days of Cluj]] festival takes place each summer.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Zilele Culturale Maghiare din Cluj |url=http://adevarul.ro/locale/cluj-napoca/zilele-culturale-maghiare-cluj-500-evenimente-concerte-plimbari-copie-barci-medievale-dezbateri-puteti-parcul-central-1_598b02e75ab6550cb8dd6f18/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328232601/http://adevarul.ro/locale/cluj-napoca/zilele-culturale-maghiare-cluj-500-evenimente-concerte-plimbari-copie-barci-medievale-dezbateri-puteti-parcul-central-1_598b02e75ab6550cb8dd6f18/index.html |archive-date=28 March 2018 |access-date=2018-03-28 |work=Adevărul |language=ro}}</ref>
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