Fogaras, a market town of Transylvania, capital of a district of the same name, on the left bank of the Aluta, 32 m. W. N. W. of Kron-stadt; pop. in 1867, 4,714. It has a strongly fortified castle, built at the beginning of the 14th century and restored in the early part of the 17th by Bethlen Gabor. Fogaras gives title to the United Greek archbishop of the Roumans in the lands of the Hungarian crown; but his residence is at Blasendorf. On July 12, 1849, Bern was defeated here by the Russian generals Engelhardt and Luders.