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{{Infobox Romanian subdivision
|type               = commune
|county             = Hunedoara
|image_flag         =
|image_shield       = ROU HD Turdas CoA.jpg
|image_skyline      = Tordosi református templom.jpg
|image_caption      = [[Reformed Church in Romania|Reformed]] church in Turdaș
|image_map          = Turdas jud Hunedoara.png
|map_caption        = Location in Hunedoara County
|leader_name        = Remi Bocșeri
|leader_party       = PSD
|leader_term        = 2020&ndash;2024
|coordinates        = {{coord|45.853|N|23.123|E|region:RO|display=it}}
|elevation          = 203
|elevation_min      = 
|elevation_max      = 
|area_total         = 32.78
|population_as_of   = 
|population_total   = auto
|population_footnotes = 
|postal_code        = 337495
|area_code          = (+40) 02 54
|website            = {{url|https://www.turdas.ro}}
}}
'''Turdaș''' ({{langx|hu|Tordos}}, {{langx|de|Tordesch}}) is a [[Commune in Romania|commune]] in [[Hunedoara County]], [[Transylvania]], [[Romania]]. It is composed of four villages: Pricaz (''Perkász''), Râpaș (''Répás''), Spini (''Pád''), and Turdaș.

Turdaș lies on the left bank of the [[Mureș (river)|Mureș River]], which surrounds the village to the north and west. 
The [[Turdaș (river)|Turdaș River]] discharges into the Mureș in the village Turdaș. To the east is the Sitiș stream, which separates the Turdaș and Pricaz villages. The commune is located in the central-east part of Hunedoara County, {{cvt|6|km}} from [[Orăștie]] and {{cvt|20|km}} from the county seat, [[Deva, Romania|Deva]]. 

Turdaș has been attested to in various relics found in museums in Germany and Romania. The first is a tax collector report dated to 1334, where in the Catholic priest paid one silver mark in taxes; the Germans in the region were Catholic until the 16th century. According to the report the village had 56 "smokes" or chimneys, i.e., houses. Turdaș is located in an area of [[Transylvanian Saxon]] settlement, and the village traditionally had a strong German population.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dörner |first1=Anton |title=Documente și cronici privind istoria orașului și scaunului Orăștie |date=2003 |publisher=Argonaut |location=Cluj-Napoca |isbn=9737710088}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=June 2022}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Urkundensammlung [Colecţia de documente medievale], Serie U. V, Nova Collectio posterior (Inventar 28), Nr. 1829 |publisher=Trier University |location=Hermannstadt, Staatsarchiv(Sibiu) |pages=464–465 |url=https://siebenbuergenurkundenbuch.uni-trier.de/catalog/496 |access-date=12 June 2022 |language=Latin |quote=Item feria secunda scilicet secundo die beati Briccii 6) dicavi villam Tordas et inveni in ea quinquaginta sex fumos, et Corrardus plebanus de eadem solvit unam 2) marcam maioris ponderis minus lotone.}}</ref>

This is the location of the Turdaș archaeological site, some 7000 years old. The archaeological site was a large Neolithic/Chalcolithic settlement along the course of the river [[Mureș (river)|Mureș]]. It was first researched by [[Zsófia Torma]]. The sub-culture Vinča-Turdaș (a late, regional variation of the [[Vinča culture]]) is named after this site. Some archaeological culture layers at this site are contemporary with the site at [[Tărtăria]].

==Natives==
*{{ill|Aurel Vlad|ro}} (1875 &ndash; 1953), lawyer and politician who served as Finance Minister in 1919&ndash;1920.

==References==
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