Covasna

Covasna lies at the foot of the Eastern Carpathians in the eastern part of the Székely country. Forested mountains rise above the settlement, while mineral springs emerge from the volcanic landscape around it. The place appears in a record of 1548 as Kowazna. Its name has been connected with a Slavic word for a sour taste, perhaps recalling the character of the local waters. The village belonged to a region whose Hungarian-speaking Székely communities lived among the valleys and mountain approaches of southeastern Transylvania.