Berzovia

Berzovia, Jidovin Schidovin Zsidovin
Help on coat of arms
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	45 ° 26 '  N , 21 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 25 '34 "  N , 21 ° 37' 40"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	128.27  km²
Residents :	3,990 (2014)
Population density :	31 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	327030
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Berzovia, Fizeș and Gherteniș
Mayor :	Pop Ioan
Postal address :	Revoluţia din Decembrie street, no. 123 loc. Berzovia, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO- 327030

Location of Berzovia in the Caraș-Severin County

Berzovia on the Josephine land survey

Berzovia (outdated: Jidovin , German: Schidovin , Hungarian: Zsidovin ) is a municipality in the Caraș-Severin district , in the Banat region , in southwestern Romania . The villages of Fizeș and Gherteniș also belong to the Berzovia municipality .

Geographical location

Berzovia is located in the west of the Caraş-Severin County, on the DN58B national road that connects Timişoara with Bocşa and Gătaia . Berzovia is 29 km from Reșița and 74 km from Timișoara.

Neighboring places

Șoșdea	Ersig	Valeapai
Gherteniș		Ramna
Măureni	Fizeș	Bocșa

history

Berzovia is first mentioned in 1390 as Bodugazunfolwa . In the Tabula Peutingeriana the village appears as a Dacian fort. In the records of the historian Marsigli 1690–1700 the settlement is called Sidovin . Schidovin is entered on the Josephine land survey of 1717 . After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat . In 1808 one meets the spellings Zsidovin and Xidovin and 1808 Jidovin . In 1851 Berzovia appears in the contemporary documents.

The village is on the site where the Roman fortress of Bersobis was once located. In 102 AD, Emperor Trajan conquered the Dacian fortress "Doca" and expanded it into the Roman fort of Bersobis . The Legio IV Flavia Felix was stationed in Bersobis . This secured the Roman main road Lederata – Tibiscum. The village of Berzovia was built both inside the ancient fort and around the fort.

In 1909 the Oravița - Bocșa Montană - Reșița railway was put into operation over a length of 59 kilometers.

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the Banat being divided into three parts , whereby Berzovia fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Slovaks
1880	4839	3812	282	251	494
1910	5449	4050	551	322	526
1930	4906	3613	482	322	489
1977	5108	4140	385	105	478
2002	4165	3429	178	84	474

Web links

• banaterra.eu , monograph of the Berzovia municipality
• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Berzovia
• bcut.ro , Archaeological excavations near Berzovia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
2. ↑ Tekintö ( Memento of 10 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ), Zsidovin
3. ↑ banaterra.eu , monograph of the Berzovia municipality
4. ↑ tren.transira.ro , hundreds of years of railways in Berzovia
5. ↑ 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