Conacul Zsombory este o construcție de tip conac, reprezentativă stilului baroc, din Zimbor, județul Sălaj. Acesta este înscris pe lista monumentelor istorice din județul Sălaj, elaborată de Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Național din România în anul 2010.
Istoric
Clădirea a fost construită de Zsombory Lajos și soția sa, Kozma Mária, în locul unui vechi conac. Pe ornamentul unuia dintre turnuri se vede anul construirii, 1892. La începutul anilor 1900, groful a pierdut castelul la cărți, în urma unui joc de kanaszta (un joc de cărți specific nobilimii maghiare, destul de asemănător cu remi-ul și cu o formă simplificată a bridge-ului), ajungând astfel în posesia ministrului de finanțe Săulescu. El nu a stat multă vreme la castel, așadar soția Maria, cunoscută drept "cucoana", a îngrijit castelul și grădina ce-l înconjoară.
Castelul a rămas în proprietatea familiei Săulescu până după Al Doilea Război Mondial, iar odată cu începerea "marii naționalizări", castelul a fost trecut în proprietatea statului și dat în folosință Ministerului Sănătății și Ocrotirii Sociale. De atunci, în castel a funcționat, întâi, un spital-sanatoriu, după care în imobil a fost instalat dispensarul uman medical al comunei. Chiar și Primăria și-a avut sediul în conac pentru câțiva ani.
Până în prezent nimeni nu a revendicat castelul. Imobilul a fost vândut pe 10 august 2005, în urma unei licitații organizate de către Consiliul Local Zimbor. Proprietarii actuali, români din Australia, se pare că vor să scape de clădire. Cei doi au plătit o sumă de 9,6 miliarde de lei pentru achiziționarea castelului. Deși construită cu atenție chiar și la cele mai mici detalii, ferestrele și ușile fiind aduse din Austria, soarta i-a fost potrivnică acestui castel.
Construcția are 14 camere, holuri, beci, anexe și un parc de 18 ari. O parte din parcul castelului a fost păstrată în forma sa originală și a devenit parcul satului.

Zsombory Mansion in Zimbor

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The castle, once belonging to the principate, was constructed between 1569 and 1572 under the orders of Bocskai György and his son, Bocskai István.
In 1594, the suzerain of Transylvania, Báthori Zsigmond, granted the castle to Csáki István. It was then obtained by Bocskai István, who left it to Bánffy László and the Haller family in 1606. The church holds the remains of Bocskai Gábor. During the 17th century the castle belonged to the Gyulaffy family – due to its geographical position it could not be used as a border castle. The building, reinforced with bastions at its four corners, was built in 1572. The beautifully carved door and window frames are the works of stonemasons from Cluj. The castle has had several owners over the centuries. Today, only the angular bastions and a few sections of wall are still standing.
Although the gorgeous renaissance castle started to fall into decay at the turn of the 20th century, people continued to live in the ruinous building until 1948.
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Bocskai Castle (Aghireșu)

Porolissum was an ancient Roman city in Dacia. Established as a military camp in 106 during Trajan's Dacian Wars, the city quickly grew through trade with the native Dacians and became the capital of the province Dacia Porolissensis in 124. The site is one of the largest and best-preserved archaeological sites in modern-day Romania. It is 8 km away from the modern city of Zalău, in Moigrad-Porolissum village, Mirsid Commune, Sălaj County.
History
In 106, at the beginning of his second war against the Dacians, Emperor Trajan established a military stronghold at the site to defend the main passageway through the Carpathian mountains. The fort, initially built of wood on stone foundations, was garrisoned with 5000 auxiliary troops transferred from Spain, Gaul and Britain. Even though the name Porolissum appears to be Dacian in origin, archaeologists have so far uncovered no evidence of a Dacian settlement preceding the Roman fort.
In the following decades, the fort was enlarged and rebuilt in stone (possibly under the reign of Marcus Aurelius), and a canaba, a civilian settlement developed around the military center. When Hadrian created the new province Dacia Porolissensis (named for the now sizable city) in 124, Porolissum became the administrative center of the province. Under emperor Septimius Severus, the city was granted municipium status, allowing its leaders and merchants to act independently. Although the Romans withdrew from Dacia ca. 271 under Aurelian, Porolissum may have been gradually abandoned in the course of the 260's.
Even though the city was founded as a military center in the middle of a war, the garrison of Porolissum seems to have lived in peaceful coexistence with their Dacian neighbours – several Dacian villages that were apparently founded after the city of Porolissum have been uncovered by archaeologists on the surrounding hills. There are also some inscriptions mentioning city officials with Romano-Dacian names, indicating close cooperation on a political level.
Excavations
Limited archaeological work at Porolissum began in the 19th century, but it was not until 1977 when Romanian archaeologists began larger-scale, systematic excavations. The excavations by a number of teams are ongoing and have uncovered remnants of both the military installations and the civilian city, including public baths, a customs house, a temple to Liber Pater, an amphitheatre, insula consisting of four buildings and a number of houses. The main gate (Porta Praetoria) of the stone fortress has been rebuilt. A joint American-Romanian team, the Porolissum Forum Project, excavated an area of the civilian settlement from 2004–2011; despite the name of the project, the team confirmed that while this area served a public function, it was not necessarily a forum.
From 2006 until 2011, another project, "Necropolis Porolissensis", was running focused on the cemetery of the municipium Porolissum, on the spot known as "Ursoies". From 2008 to 2011 a Romanian-German-Hungarian team was excavating an underground-building in the centre of the castle, probably a water cistern.
In 2015, archaeologists from Zalău County Museum unearthed a stone sarcophagus containing skeletal remains of a young person. The sarcophagus is unusual because it was not found in the cemetery, rather it was discovered by chance during restoration of another part of the ruins. The limestone lid has carvings that were common in Roman times, and it has a hole that suggests that the grave was robbed in antiquity.
Temple of Nemesis
Nemesis was the goddess of justice, fortune and destiny. It was believed that she influenced the fate of those who were frequently faced with death and danger, so she was worshipped especially by soldiers and gladiators. Thus, the goddess was closely linked to the world of amphitheaters. Places of worship dedicated to her are near amphitheaters or even embedded in the building. The sanctuary of Porolissum was built in the late 2nd century or in the beginning of the 3rd century AD. Probably it was also a place of worship of other deities which were linked in one way or another to amphitheatre activities, especially animal fighting (venatio), such as Liber Pater: god of vegetation and vines, or Silvanus: protector god of forests, pastures and wild animals.
Amphitheater
The amphitheater was built as a wood structure during the reign of Hadrian. Later, in 157 AD, it has been rebuilt in stone.
In popular culture
Porolissum is the primary setting of Harry Turtledove's science fiction novel Gunpowder Empire.