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Ceanu Mare (Hungarian: Mezőcsán) is a village in the north-west of Romania, in the county of Cluj in Transylvania.

The village is known in Germany after the Schröder family discovered that the father of chancellor Gerhard Schröder was buried there in a common grave in 1944. The lieutenant Fritz Schröder was a soldier in the German army during the Second World War and he died at the age of 32 near the city of Turda (Thorenburg in German) on the 4 October 1944, without ever seeng his new-born son, Gerhard.

Cluj CountyCommunes and villages in Transylvania