Bănia

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Bănia
Bania
Bánya
Bănia coat of arms
Bănia (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Banat
Circle : Caraș-Severin
Coordinates : 44 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 52 '34 "  N , 22 ° 2' 42"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 207.68  km²
Residents : 1,740 (2014)
Population density : 8 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 327010
Telephone code : (+40) 02 55
License plate : CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Bănia, Gârbovăț
Mayor : Silvestru Bălan ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principala No. 120
loc. Bănia, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO-327010
Website :
Location of Bănia in Caraș-Severin County

Bănia (German: Bania , Hungarian: Bánya ) is a municipality in the Caraș-Severin County , Banat , Romania . The village of Gârbovăț also belongs to the municipality of Bănia .

Geographical location

Bănia is located in the south of the Caraș-Severin County and the Almăj Depression, on the DJ 571 county road and the DN 57B national road, 165 km from Reșița and 135 km from Caransebeş .

Neighboring places

Bozovici Prilipeț Prigor
Lăpușnicu Mare Neighboring communities Eftimie Murgu
Gârbovăț Almăj Mountains Almăj Mountains

history

Archaeological excavations from 1878 uncovered a prehistoric settlement of the Coțofeni culture on the municipal area . Artifacts from Roman times were also found: a Dacian coin, 250 Roman coins from the 6th century BC. BC, a coin from Constantine the Great .

The place Bania is entered on the Josephine land survey of 1717 . After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Banat was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary . Bánya belonged to Krassó-Szörény county .

In the first decade of the 20th century, the law for the Magyarization of place names (Ga. 4/1898) was applied, including the Magyarization of all toponyms on maps , land register extracts and city ​​maps . The official place name was Bánya . The Hungarian place names remained valid until the administrative reform of 1923 in the Kingdom of Romania , when the Romanian place names were introduced.

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the triple division of the Banat , which Bănia fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

In the interwar period, the village was part of the Caraş County. Today it belongs to the Caraș-Severin district.

Demographics

census Ethnicity
year Residents Romanians Hungary German Other
1880 3960 3954 - 4th 2
1910 4259 4206 14th 4th 35
1930 3514 3385 - 2 127
1977 2489 2460 - - 29
2002 2014 1959 1 1 53

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  2. ^ Gerhard Seewann : History of the Germans in Hungary , Volume 2 1860 to 2006, Herder Institute, Marburg 2012
  3. ↑ kia.hu (PDF; 858 kB), E. Varga: Statistics of the number of inhabitants by ethnicity in the Caraș-Severin district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002