Breştea

Breştea Berestye Brešća, Брешкя
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Timiș
Municipality :	Denta
Coordinates :	45 ° 21 '  N , 21 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 21 '8 "  N , 21 ° 16' 33"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Residents :	535 (2002)
Postal code :	307146
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 56
License plate :	TM
Structure and administration
Community type :	Village

Location of Breştea in Timiş County

Breștea (Hungarian: Berestye , Bulgarian: Brešća , Брешкя ) is a village in Timiș County , Banat , Romania . The village, mostly inhabited by Banat Bulgarians, belongs to the municipality of Denta .

Geographical location

Breştea is located in the south of Timiş County, 52 kilometers from the district capital Timişoara and 14 kilometers from the Moravița border crossing , on the border with Serbia .

Neighboring places

Deta	Opatița	Rovinița Mare
Denta		Rovinița Mică
Gaiu Mic	Stamora Germana	Percosova

history

Breştea is one of the Bulgarian villages in the Banat.

Brešća was founded in 1842 by 110 Bulgarians from Dudeștii Vechi . Each family got a piece of land to build a house and eleven yokes of arable land. The village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat . After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Banat was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary . The village received the official place name Berestye . After 1880 some of the residents of Breştea moved to Bulgaria , where they founded the village of Bardarski Geran . The Roman Catholic Church in Breştea was built in 1902. The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the trisection of the Banat, whereby Breştea fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

Since the population along the Romanian-Yugoslav border was classified as a security risk by the Romanian government after Stalin's rift with Tito and his exclusion from the Cominform alliance, they were deported to the Bărăgan steppe on June 18, 1951, regardless of ethnicity . At the same time, the Romanian leadership aimed to break the resistance against the impending collectivization of agriculture . When the Bărăgan abductees returned home in 1956, the houses and farms expropriated in 1945 were returned to them. However, the field ownership was collectivized.

population

The Banat Bulgarians were always in the majority in Breştea. They speak their own Bulgarian dialect, the Banat Bulgarian , and, unlike the Bulgarians in the motherland, use the Latin script . They are also of Roman Catholic faith, which also distinguishes them from the Orthodox Bulgarians in Bulgaria.

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Bulgarians
1880	1103	5	21st	7th	1070
1910	1004	20th	53	26th	905
1930	863	6th	17th	15th	825
1977	748	18th	12	-	718
2002	535	62	9	-	464

Web links

• minoritiesromania.blogspot.de , Bulgarians in the Banat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ minoritiesromania.blogspot.de , Bulgarians in the Banat
2. ↑ kia.hu , E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in Timiș County according to censuses from 1880-2002