Marga (Caraș-Severin)

Marga Marga Márga
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	45 ° 30 ′  N , 22 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	55.45  km²
Residents :	1,153 (2014)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	327260
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Marga and Vama Marga
Mayor :	Nicolae Beg ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 217 loc. Marga, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO- 327260
Website :	www.primariamarga.ro

Location of Marga in the Caraș-Severin district

Marga

Marga on the Josephine land survey

Marga (German: Marga , Hungarian: Márga ) is a municipality in the Caraș-Severin district , in the Banat region , in south-western Romania . The village of Vama Marga also belongs to the municipality of Marga .

Geographical location

Marga is located in the northeast of the Caraş-Severin district, halfway between Caransebeş and Hațeg , in the Bistra Valley.

Neighboring places

Voislova	Vama Varga	Băuțar
Magura		Bucova
Măru	Poiana Mărului

history

Over the centuries, different spellings of the place name appeared: 1470 Marga , 1808 Marga , 1888 Márga , 1913 Márga , 19019 Marga .

Around the year 100 to 120, the Romans built Fort Margum in the area of ​​today's Marga. The village was first mentioned in a document in 1470, when Jakob de Marga was the commandant of the Severin fortress.

On the Josephine land survey of 1717, Marga is uninhabited. After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat .

In 1757 the village had 50 houses and a church, in 1774 there were already 180 houses. During the Russo-Austrian Turkish War of 1736–1739, Marga was burned down by General Lentulus' army .

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

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	1705	1668	2	22nd	13
1910	1970	1943	2	12	13
1930	1813	1773	-	10	30th
1977	1649	1647	-	-	2
2002	1300	1265	7th	-	28

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Marga
• banaterra.eu , Marga

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
2. ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Transylvania localities
3. ↑ banaterra.eu ( Memento from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Marga
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