Silvania National College
Silvania National College (, ) is a bilingual high school in Zalău, Romania, with both Romanian and Hungarian language classes. In 2002 it had 949 students, of whom 747 participated in Romanian and 202 in Hungarian language education.

History 
The high school was formed by the Calvinist community in Zilah (present-day Zalău) in the first half of the 17th century. Initially, lessons were held in Latin, which was later replaced by Hungarian. In the 1830s, following a disagreement between the school and the church, Miklós Wesselényi took over the burden of the institution and paid the teachers wage and other fees himself. In remembrance of this service to the school, it later took the name of Wesselényi. In 1848, led by their teachers, the students from the upper class joined the Hungarian Revolution, for which after the failure of the revolution the college feared of abolition by the Habsburg authorities. 

The main building of the high school was built in 1903 with the support of the Wesselényi family. In 1948, due to the Communist takeover, the school was nationalized and ceased to exist as a faith school. At this time it was renamed from Wesselényi Reformed College to simply Liceum nr. 2 and served as a Hungarian language institution. In 1960 it was unified with the Romanian language high school and since then language education has been given in both languages. Between 1953 and 1965, the high school was called Ady Endre (for a notable former graduate), then Liceul de Matematică-Fizică, Liceul Teoretic and, after 2001, Colegiul Național „Silvania”.

List of graduates
 Endre Ady (1877–1919) graduated in 1896
 Nándor Balaskó (1918–1996), sculptor, graduated in 1937 
 Lajos Bíró (1856–1931), zoologist, ethnographer
 Victor Deleu (1876–1940), politician
 Iulian Andrei Domsa (1887–1978), jurist, politician, graduated in 1906
 Sámuel Gyarmathi (1751–1830), physician, linguist
 Gyula Kincs (1856–1915) principal of the college 
 Béla Kun (1886–1938), politician
 Iuliu Maniu (1873–1953), politician, graduated in 1890
 Gyula Márton (1916–1976) linguist, university professor, prorector of the University of Cluj
 János Moldován (1905–1977) painter, art teacher and director of the college, graduated in 1923
 Lajos Szikszai (1825–1897), politician 
 Benjamin Zörgő (1916–1980), psychologist, professor

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Educational institutions established in the 1640s
Schools in Sălaj County
Bilingual schools
National Colleges in Romania
Zalău
1646 establishments in Europe