Sfântu Gheorghe is one of the
oldest cities in Transylvania, the settlement first having been documented in
1332. The city takes it name from Saint George, the patron of the local church.
Historically it was also known in German as Sankt Georgen. The "sepsi" prefix (sebesi → sepsi, meaning "of Sebes") refers to the area which
the ancestors of the local Székely population had inhabited before settling to
the area of the town
