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Moacșa (Hungarian: Maksa) is a village in Covasna County, located in the Târgu Secuiesc Depression. It is the administrative center of the Moacșa commune. The locality of Moacșa lies in the central part of the county, along the Pădureni Valley, at the southern end of the Bodoc Mountains, at an altitude of 547 meters, on National Road DN11, along the route Brașov – Târgu Secuiesc – Bacău.

The first documentary attestation dates back to 1332; however, archaeological discoveries prove that humans lived here much earlier. Thus, in 1961, during an archaeological survey conducted in the place called “Maksahát,” a settlement of the Cucuteni-Ariușd type and remains from the 11th–12th centuries were identified, while on the “Moacșa boundary” a Dacian fortress was discovered. On the right bank of the Pădureni stream, a two-level settlement of the Precucuteni and Cucuteni-Ariușd type was found, containing a rectangular dwelling, ceramic fragments, and household objects. At “Drumul cerei,” a Roman Republican silver coin of the Rubria family was discovered, and in the “Vereșmart boundary,” between the Ciobot and Năsaș streams, traces of a settlement from the Roman period can be found. Here, substructures of a stone building, fragments of tiles, and provincial Roman pottery were found accidentally. At the western end of the village, on a prepared site called “Mégely,” a Neolithic settlement attributed to an early phase of the Ariușd-Cucuteni culture was discovered, overlain by Dacian habitation.

The economy of this locality is predominantly agricultural, based on crop cultivation (potatoes, sugar beet, and cereals) and animal husbandry.

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