Cherestur

Cherestur Kerestur Keresztúr, Pusztakeresztúr Крстур
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Timiș
Municipality :	Beba Veche
Coordinates :	46 ° 7 '  N , 20 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 7 '29 "  N , 20 ° 22' 56"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Residents :	475 (2002)
Postal code :	307036
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 56
License plate :	TM
Structure and administration
Community type :	Village

Location of Cherestur in Timiș County

Cherestur (German: Kerestur , Hungarian: Keresztúr , Pusztakeresztúr , Serbian: Крстур ) is a village in Timiș County , Banat , Romania . Cherestur belongs to the municipality of Beba Veche .

Geographical location

Cherestur is located in the west of the Timiș County, at the border triangle Romania - Hungary - Serbia , 27 kilometers from Sânnicolau Mare and 91 kilometers northwest of Timișoara , on the DC3 municipal road that connects Sânnicolau Mare with Beba Veche , the westernmost tip of Romania.

Neighboring places

Hungary	Pordeanu	Hungary
Beba Veche		Cheglevici
Serbia	Vălcani	Colonia Bulgară

history

Cherstur was first mentioned in 1274 when the settlement belonged to the Csanád county . In the Middle Ages, the place name was Nemes Kerestur . The landowners were Hungarian nobles, among them Fabian Kereszturi or Kereszturi Egyed, who added the place name as an addition to their name.

Until 1526 the settlement belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and during the Ottoman rule (1526–1718) to the Vilâyet Timișoara. From 1718 to 1778 the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat . In 1778 the Banat was awarded to the Kingdom of Hungary by Empress Maria Theresa . From 1849 to 1860 it was part of an independent crown land of the Voivodeship of Serbia and 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 Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the Banat being divided into three parts, whereby Cherestur was initially awarded to the Kingdom of Serbia . After the border regulation of 1924 Cherestur 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.

Demographics

Cherestur has always been a Hungarian village.

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	599	-	588	6th	5
1910	687	1	671	13	2
1930	807	1	783	7th	16
1977	562	29	523	4th	6th
2002	475	83	377	1	14th

Web links

• comunabebaveche.weebly.com , The municipal road DC3 Cherestur-Pordeanu, border with Hungary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kia.hu , (PDF; 982 kB) E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnicity in the Timiș district according to censuses from 1880 to 2002