Crasna

Crasna lies where the Valea Banului meets the Crasna River, in the basin west of the Meseș Mountains. Recorded in 1213 as Carasna, it gave its name to the historic county of Kraszna. A priest of the settlement appears in a document of 1341, and its medieval church later served a Reformed congregation. The river valley placed Crasna among the settlements connecting the hills of Transylvania with the plain to the west.