Orlat is situated in the Cibin depression, 17 km west of Sibiu, at an altitude of 483 m and is crossed by Cibin River, Raul Negru (Saliste) and Orlatel River. The confluence of the three waters is located in the perimeter of Orlat village. It is the residence of the Orlat commune.
The year of the first written testimony is 1319, with the Latin name Ecclesia de monte Civinii praepositurae Cibiniensis, meaning "Commune de Cetate". Orlat is one of the oldest in the Marginimea Sibiului. After the Transylvanian entry into the Hapsburg Domain, Orlatul became, starting from 1764 - 1765, the headquarters of the 1st Granice Regiment which guarded the border of Transylvania with Wallachia.
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