Orastie City

Traces of human activities can be found since Paleolithic, with intense progress in the Dacian-Roman age. Orastie city was at one point a Dacian-Roman fortification, and along the time as suffered several transformations in relation to the strategical position. Orastie was destroyed and rebuild several times during the centuries due to firm attitude of his cohabitants, the Getae (named by the Greeks) or Dacians (by Roman definition).

The city's first documented Diploma of the city in 1224 was granted by the Hungarian King, Andrei II to renew the privileges to the German population brought here to populate the area and also to recognize the presence of native population.

In XIV century the population of Orastie counted around 1,300 souls and commerce with other Romanian Counties, Poland and Dalmatia flourished.

At the end of XVth century the territory was declared "civitas" a city with the right to be represented in the Diet.

With the beginning of the 1853, the city was the Capital Region of the 10th administrative center of Transylvania, the Orastie Region. Orastie region was devised in other 9 districts called "Plase". Those "Plase" where Deva, Halmagiu, Hateg, Baia de Cris, Ilia-Muresana, Soimus and Hunedoara.

At the Great union in Alba-Iulia in December 1st 1918, Orastie city was represented by a delegation. In the year 1974 was the anniversary of 750 years from the first incorporation record.