Mehadica

Mehadica Mehadika Mehadika, Kismiháld
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	45 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 2 '20 "  N , 22 ° 15' 53"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	118.03  km²
Residents :	849 (2014)
Population density :	7 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	327275
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Mayor :	Ion Urechiatu (UNPPR)
Postal address :	No. 71 loc. Mehadica, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO-327275
Website :	www.primariamehadica.ro

Location of Mehadica in the Caraș-Severin district

Mehadica on the Josephine land survey

Mehadica (German: Mehadika , Hungarian: Mehadika , Kismiháld ) is a municipality in the Caraş-Severin district , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania .

Geographical location

Mehadica is located in the middle of the Caraș-Severin district, in the Mehadica Valley. Following the course of the river, you can reach the Semenic Mountains from here .

Neighboring places

Verendin	Luncavița	Domașnea
Semenic Mountains		Cornea
Pârvova	Globu Craiovei	Cuptoare

history

Over the centuries, different spellings of the place name appeared: 1440–44 Mehedyka , 1575 Kis-Myhald , Myhedika , 1603 Mehadyka , 1808 Mehedika , 1888 Mehadika , 1913 Kismiháld , 1919 Mehadica .

A first documentary mention comes from the year 1440. The traveler Evliya Çelebi mentioned Mehadica as part of the Severin Banat in his descriptions.

Mehadika is entered on the Josephine land survey of 1717 . After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat .

As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Banat was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary . The official place name was Kismiháld .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the triple division of the Banat , whereby Mehadica fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	2022	2014	-	5	3
1910	2290	2247	20th	8th	15th
1930	2290	2262	-	3	25th
1977	1489	1485	1	1	2
2002	922	894	5	-	23

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Mehadica
• mehadica.ro , Mehadica

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. ↑ mehadica.ro , Mehadica
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