Denta

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Denta
Дента
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Denta (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Banat
Circle : Timiș
Coordinates : 45 ° 21 '  N , 21 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 21 '14 "  N , 21 ° 14' 56"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 93  m
Area : 91.40  km²
Residents : 2,982 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 33 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 307145
Telephone code : (+40) 02 56
License plate : TM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Denta, Breştea , Rovinița Mare , Rovinița Mică
Mayor : Iacob Slavoliub ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 224
loc. Denta, jud. Timiș, RO-307145
Website :
Location of Denta in Timiș County
Denta on the Josephine land survey (1769–1772)

Denta (rarely Tenta ; German and Hungarian Denta , Serbian - Cyrillic Дента ) is a municipality in Timiș County , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania . The villages of Breştea , Rovinița Mare and Rovinița Mică belong to the municipality of Denta .

Geographical location

Denta is located in the south of Timiș County, on European route 70 , between the state border with Serbia and the city of Deta .

Neighboring places

Ofsenița Voiteg Rovinița Mare
Partoș Neighboring communities Sângeorge
About Stamora Germana Breştea

history

Archaeological finds show that Denta has been inhabited since ancient times. A stone tablet with a Latin inscription testifies that the Roman regional capital Malva was on the territory of today's Denta. Remains of the Römerschanze, which passes east of Denta, are still present. Valuable gold and silver coins date from the time of the Great Migration . Warrior graves testify to the presence of the Magyars in the neighborhood of Denta. The place was first mentioned in 1332 under the name Dench . The village belonged to the Omor family in 1370 . During the Turkish occupation (1552-1716) Denta was an Ottoman fortress. In 1660 the place was described by the traveler Evliya Çelebi .

After the Banat was conquered by Prince Eugene of Savoy , the imperial military administration set up a cameral rent office in Denta, which carried out the planned settlements in this area . In 1724 the first Germans were settled in Denta. Germans settled north of the Bârzava and Romanians south of the river . In addition to the rent office, a prefecture , a post office , a rectory and a garrison were established. In 1769 Denta was given the right to hold weekly markets . During the subsequent Turkish wars , the German settlement was destroyed and many left the place. After that, mainly Serbs and Bulgarians were settled here. Germans did not come back from other villages in the Banat until the 19th century through internal migration.

There have always been three churches in Denta: a Roman Catholic (1890), a Romanian Orthodox (1889) and a Serbian Orthodox (1795). In addition to the Germans, Bulgarians and Hungarians also belonged to the Catholic religious community. Today's Catholic Church was consecrated in 1891.

On June 4, 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon . The largest, eastern part, to which Denta also belonged, fell to Romania.

As a result of the Waffen-SS Agreement of May 12, 1943 between the Antonescu government and Hitler's Germany , all men of German origin who were conscripted into the German army. Before the end of the war, in January 1945, all ethnic German women between the ages of 18 and 30 and men between the ages of 16 and 45 were deported to the Soviet Union for reconstruction work . The Land Reform Act of March 23, 1945 , which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, deprived the rural population of their livelihoods.

On June 18, 1951, the deportation to the Bărăgan steppe took place regardless of ethnicity. To this end, the Romanian government drafted a plan to cleanse the border area with Yugoslavia "from politically unreliable elements". When the Bărăgan displaced people returned home in 1956, they got back the houses and farms that had been expropriated in 1945, but the land ownership was collectivized .

Demographics

census Ethnicity
year Residents Romanians Hungary German Bulgarian
Serbs
1880 4906 1396 708 432 2370
1910 5991 1623 1048 1205 2115
1930 5116 1518 786 1021 1791
1977 3899 1820 521 94 1464
2002 3187 2020 293 19th 855
2011 2982 1885 257 30th 479/127

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ↑ E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in Timiș County according to censuses from 1880-2002 . (PDF; 982 kB)