Ever since the ancient times, due to its geographical position (numerous water courses, diversiffied geographical features, rich river meadows and wide forests), the teritory of Alba Iulia county has provided resources that favoured the settlements, and therefore comunities. Among the greatest archeological discoveries and historic events, based on recorded documents, that point out the rich history of the settlements in this county, we mark:

· Markers and relics from the Paleolithical Age (at Sohodol); Neolithical Age: the Cris Culture (Alba Iulia) and the Petreşti Culture (Pianu de Jos, Răhău, Limba, Mihalţ, Noslac, Daia Română şi Ghirbom), the Coţofeni Culture – the transition period between the Neolithic Age and the Bronze Age (Cetate, Câlnic, Capud, Sebeş, Livezile, Straja, Pianu de Jos, Pianu de Sus, Blandiana, Piatra Craivii), the Bronze Age (Alba Iulia, Cetea, Igiel, Rîmeţ, Ţălna, Bucium, Ceru Băcăinţi, Roşia de Secaş, etc.), the Iron Age (Baia, Blaj, Alba Iulia, Sebeş, Crăciunelu de Jos, etc.)ş along with the native Tracks, this teritorz was also home to the Schyts and later Celts.

· From the time of the first centralised independant state, under the command of Burebista and later Decebal, we recall the fortresses from Căpâlna, Piatra Craivii, Cugir and Cetatea de Baltă.

· From the age of the Roman conquest, there were important centres at Apulum (Alba Iulia), Apulon (Piatra Craivii) with the collonies of Aurelia Apulensis and Nova Apulensis, Ampelum (Zlatna), Alburnus Maior (Roşia Montană), Brucla (Aiud), etc.

· Major archeological discoveries from the IIIrd and IVth  centuries A.D. - Alba Iulia, Obreja, Cricău, Aiud, Ciumbrud, Răhău, Ungurei, Sebeş; from the Vth and Vith centuries - Alba Iulia, Sebeş, Câlnic; from the VII – IXth centuries A.D. – Noslac, Alba Iulia, Pianu de Jos, Aiud, Blandiana, Berghin, Cricău, Cugir, Ghirbom, Sebeş, Turdas, Spalnaca, Teiuş, Laz, Sânmiclăuş, etc.

– Noslac, Alba Iulia, Pianu de Jos, Aiud, Blandiana, Berghin, Cricau, Cugir, Ghirbom, Sebes, Turdas, Spalnaca, Teius, Laz, Sinmiclaus, etc;

· The Xth century A.D., the county of Gyula (in Romanian ‘voievodat’), ruled by gyula;

· The XIIth century A.D. around the Alba Iulia centre the Alba Iulia county is founded (1177).

·  The year 1546, Alba iulia becomes the capital of the autonomous region of Transylvania (after the battle of Mohacs).

· The year 1600, Alba Iulia becomes the place where the first great Unions of the three Romanian states was finalised (Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia) under the command of Michael the Brave, therefore Alba iulia became the first capital of the united romanian countries.

·  1784, the Great Rebellion of Horea, Cloşca and Crişan takes place.

· The XVII-XVIIIth centuries represent a special cultural period - 1648 – The New Testament from Bălgrad, “Şcoala Ardeleană” with its major founders: Petru Maior, Samuel Micu, Gheorghe Şincai; the cultural centres of the feudal age: Alba Iulia, Blaj; from that time the stone Fortresses of Cîlnic, Săsciori, Colţeşti, Vurpăr, Gârbova are sill standing, as well as the fortifications from Sebeş, Aiud, Alba Iulia (the bastion fortress in the Vauban  Style built between 1715+-1738 by the emperor of Austria, Caarol the Vith, by the work of thousands of native peasans), and also a great nomber of monuments and Christian churches.

· The rvolution that took place in 1848-1849, with the great meeting from Câmpia Libertăţii from Blaj in Maz, the prodigious activity of Avram Iancu, the great tribun of the people from “Ţara de Piatră”.

· The year 1918, on December 1^st , the Great National Meeting that took place at Alba Iulia, gave the final unanimous vote from the 1228 representatives of the Transylvanian population in favour of the union with Romania.

· The year 1968, due to the reform in administration, the countz of Alba is born, with the residence at Alba Iulia.

·  In 1991 the “1 Decembrie 1918” University is founded.