Toplița is a municipality in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. The settlement has had multiple name changes: Taplócza, Toplicza, Gyer…Toplița is a municipality in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. The settlement has had multiple name changes: Taplócza, Toplicza, Gyergyó-Toplicza, from February 3, 1861 Oláh-Toplicza, or "Romanian Toplița", then from January 1, 1907 Maroshévíz, until 1918, when it received the Romanian name Toplița Română. Both the Romanian and the Hungarian name mean "hot water spring"; the former is a Romanian word of Slavic origin.