Igneşti

Igneşti Ignest, Ignesty Ignafalva
Help on coat of arms
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Screeching area
Circle :	Arad
Coordinates :	46 ° 25 '  N , 22 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 24 '35 "  N , 22 ° 10' 10"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	5.00  km²
Residents :	679 (2011)
Population density :	136 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	317195
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 57
License plate :	AR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Igneşti, Minead , Nădălbeşti and Susani
Mayor :	Ioan Marinel Urs ( PNL )
Postal address :	Str. Principală No. 24 loc. Igneşti, jud. Arad, RO-317195
Website :	primariaignesti.ro

Location of Igneşti in Arad County

Igneşti on the Josephinian land survey

Igneşti (German: Ignest , Ignesty , Hungarian: Ignafalva ) is a municipality in Arad County , in the Kreischgebiet , in western Romania . The villages of Minead , Nădălbeşti and Susani also belong to the Igneşti municipality .

Geographical location

Igneşti is located at the foot of the Codru-Moma Mountains , 89 km from the district capital Arad and seven km from Sebiş .

Neighboring places

Prunişor	Suzani	Minead
Voivodeni		Buhani
Sebiș	Donceni	Laz

history

The first written mention of Agnafalva comes from 1553.

Over the centuries different spellings of the place name appeared: 1553, 1561 Agnafalva , 1622 Ignest , 1746, 1828 Ignesty , 1839, 1851 Ignesty , 1858 Ignesd , 1863, 1877 Ignest , 1882 Ignest , Ignesd , Ignesci , 1893, 1900 Ignest , 1909 Igneşti , Ignest , 1910, 1913 Ignafalva , 1921 Igneşti , Ignafalva , 1932 Igneşti .

After the Peace of Karlowitz (1699), Arad and the Maroscher Land came under Austrian rule , while the Banat south of the Marosch remained under Turkish rule until the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) . On the Josephine land survey is Ignesty entered.

As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Arad region, like the whole of Banat and Transylvania, was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy . The official place name was Ignafalva .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in border regulation, which Igneşti fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	1097	1089	-	6th	2
1910	1583	1552	5	3	23
1930	1526	1512	7th	-	7th
1977	977	962	2	1	12
1992	858	851	3	-	4th
2002	822	817	5	-	-

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Igneşti Citizens Registration Office
• virtualarad.net , Igneşti on VirtualArad
• arcanum.hu , Transylvanian localities

Individual evidence

1. ↑ citypopulation.de , census October 20, 2011
2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
3. ↑ primariaignesti.ro ( Memento from October 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Igneşti City Hall
4. ↑ arcanum.hu , Szabó M. Attila : Historical and administrative place names book of Transylvania, Banat and Partium
5. ↑ kia.hu , E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in the Arad district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002