Marga (Caraș-Severin)
Marga Marga Márga |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Banat | |||
Circle : | Caraș-Severin | |||
Coordinates : | 45 ° 30 ′ N , 22 ° 31 ′ 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 |
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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 | |||||||
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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
- ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
- ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Transylvania localities
- ↑ banaterra.eu ( Memento from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Marga
- ↑ 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