Cornea (Caraș-Severin)

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Cornea
Kornia, Kornja
Somfa, Kornya
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Cornea (Caraș-Severin) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Banat
Circle : Caraș-Severin
Coordinates : 45 ° 2 ′  N , 22 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 2 ′ 27 "  N , 22 ° 19 ′ 30"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 46.19  km²
Residents : 2,173 (2014)
Population density : 47 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 327105
Telephone code : (+40) 02 55
License plate : CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Cornea, Crușovăț , Cuptoare , Macoviște
Mayor : Lăzărescu Ilie ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 261
loc. Cornea, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO-327105
Website :
Location of Cornea in the Caraș-Severin County
Cornea on the Josephine land survey

Cornea (German: Kornia , Kornja , Hungarian: Somfa , Kornya ) is a municipality in the Caraș-Severin District , Banat , Romania . The villages of Crușovăț , Cuptoare , Macoviște also belong to the Cornea municipality .

Geographical location

Cornea is located in the southeast of Banat, in the Timis - Cerna -Tal, north of Baile Herculane , in the Domaşnea - Mehadia -sink that the east by Ţarcu- and Godeanu Mountains and to the west by semenic flanked. Cornea is located 86.6 km from Reșița , 46.81 km from Caransebeş , 90 km from Oravița .

Neighboring places

Luncavița Domașnea Cornereva
Mehadica Neighboring communities Mesteacăn
Cuptoare Crușovăț Globurău

history

Over the centuries the place name appeared under different spellings: 1539 Somffa , 1582 Somfalu , 1603 Korny , 1607 Somfalua , 1690–1700 Kornyi , 1717 Kornia , 1808 Kornja , Kornya , 1888 Kornya ( Kornia ), 1913 Somfa , 1919: Cornea .

A first documentary mention comes from the year 1539. On the Josephine land survey of 1717 the place Kornia is registered with 48 houses. After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat .

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

Population development

census Ethnicity
year Residents Romanians Hungary German Other
1880 2922 2901 9 12 -
1910 3181 3084 40 9 48
1930 3109 3059 5 11 34
1977 2744 2712 6th 1 11
2002 2178 2143 1 - 34

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  2. ↑ a b primaria-cornea.ro , Cornea parish
  3. ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Transylvania localities
  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