30. Reformed College of Nagyenyed
In 1622, the Transylvanian Diet which met in Cluj approved prince Gábor Bethlen’s plan regarding the establishing of an institution of higher education and therefore the Academicum Collegium seu Gymnasium Illustre was founded. This Hungarian reformed (Calvinist) school has seen multiple wars, massacres, book burns by foreign and local armies. The college, because of the Ottomans’ attacks in 1658, firstly took refuge in Cluj, and then it was moved to Aiud by prince Mihály Apafi I. Nowadays, the Bethlen Gabor College is Aiud’s most important educational institution.
