Bolvașnița

Bolvașnița Bolwaschnitza Bolvás
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	45 ° 42 '  N , 22 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 41 '44 "  N , 22 ° 36' 36"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Residents :	1,390 (2014)
Postal code :	327035
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Bolvașnița, Vârciorova
Mayor :	Mihăilescu Petru ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 141A loc. Bolvașnița, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO-327035
Website :	www.primaria-bolvasnita.ro
Others
City Festival :	Ruga Bănățeană, on the 1st Sunday in September

Location of Bolvașnița in the Caraș-Severin County

Bolvașnița on the Josephine land survey

Bolvașnița (German: Bolwaschnitza , Hungarian: Bolvás ) is a municipality in the Caraș-Severin district , in the Banat region in southwestern Romania . The village of Vârciorova also belongs to the municipality of Bolvașnița .

Geographical location

Bolvaşnița is 15 km south of Caransebeş , on the western slope of the Muntele Mic , on the European route 70 (E 70).

Neighboring places

Buchin	Zlagna	Borlova
Valea Timișului		Muntele Mic
Vălișoara	Ilova	Vârciorova

history

A first documentary mention comes from the year 1376. Over the centuries different spellings of the place name occurred: 1376 Balasnicha , 1808 Bolvasnicza , 1888 Bolvashnica , 1913 Bolvás , 1909 Bolvasnicza , 1919 Bolvașnița .

Bolvaşnița is mentioned in the records of the historian Marsigli from 1690 to 1700 . Polvaschnitsa 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 . During the Russo-Austrian Turkish War of 1788 , the village was completely destroyed and then rebuilt according to the Habsburg model.

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

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	1969	1951	4th	5	9
1910	2199	2192	1	4th	2
1930	2179	2175	-	-	4th
1977	1871	1821	2	-	48
2002	1573	1566	1	-	6th

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Bolvașnița

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
2. ↑ ecoroute.org ( Memento of July 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ruga Bănățeană
3. ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Transylvanian place names
4. ↑ 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