Tureni, a settlement located in Cluj County, was first mentioned around 1200 in written documents as “villa Thur”. According to certain memoires, the village was located on the left side of the valley, but due to the Mongol invasion, the settlement was destroyed. The tithe records from 1332 mention the parish church and parson Mihály.
In the last years of prince George Rákóczi II`s rule, Transylvania was attacked by the Turks several times. Some of their troops were camping close to Tureni and the people from Cluj were sending gifts to the Turkish army. János Linczig, the local land-steward who was the deliverer of these gifts, reported that the Turks set the village on fire.
According to Balázs Orbán, the village had an important impact on the county`s political life. In the assemblies held in Turda (Hu: Torda), the opinions of the people from Tureni was in most cases determinant. The Hungarian population of the settlement belonged to the Catholic, Reformed and Unitarian Church. Each denomination had its own church; in the Catholic church a Madonna statue can be found that dates from the 14th century.