Pecica

Pecica
Petschka
Pécska
Pečka / Печка

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Screeching area

Circle :

Arad

Coordinates :

46 ° 10 ' N , 21 ° 4' E Coordinates: 46 ° 9 '54 " N , 21 ° 4' 4" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

103 m

Area :

237.17 km²

Residents :

12,762 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

54 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

317235

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 57

License plate :

AR

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

city

Structure :

3 districts / cadastral communities: Turnu , Sederhat , Bodrogul Vechi

Mayor :

Petru Antal ( PNL )

Postal address :

Str. 2, no. 150
loc. Pecica, jud. Arad, RO-317235

Website :

www.pecica.ro

Pecica ( German Petschka , Hungarian [Magyar] Pécska , Croatian Pečka , Serbian - Cyrillic Печка ) is a town in the Arad district in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Pecica in Arad County

Pecica is located in western Romania, in the east of the Great Hungarian Plain , to the right of the river Mures ( Mures ). The district capital Arad is located about 20 km to the east.

history

The region of the city has been populated since the Bronze Age. Some historians see Pecica as the location of the Dacian fortress Ziridava described by Claudius Ptolemy . The current place was first mentioned in 1335 under the name Petk . At that time it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and was owned by Hungarian nobles for a long time. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Pecica - like the entire Banat - was part of the Ottoman Empire . Then he came to the Habsburg dual monarchy . In 1735 Pecica started a peasant uprising led by Pero (Petru) Seghedinatz, a resident of the village. From the 18th century on, the village was divided into two parts; the western one was predominantly populated by Hungarians , the eastern one by Romanians . From 1846 to 1900 the Romanian part of Pecica had the status of a city. It was not until 1960 that both parts were administratively united. In order to avoid that the street signs are written in Romanian and Hungarian at the same time, it was agreed in 2002 that the 120 streets would not be given names, but would be marked with Arabic numerals. In 2004 the two districts of Pecica were jointly declared a city.

In 1997, a border crossing to Hungary was opened in the incorporated town of Turnu .

Agriculture and food processing are the city's main industries. Oil and gas production also play a role.

population

In 1579 353 families were registered in Pecica. In 1880, 17,673 people lived in the area of today's city, of which 9894 Hungarians, 6149 Romanians, 585 Serbs , 429 Slovaks and 268 Germans. The population peaked at 20,562 as early as 1910 and has been falling since then. In the 2002 census, Pecica registered 13,024 inhabitants, including 7,431 Romanians, 4,242 Hungarians, 1,092 Roma , 78 Serbs, 73 Slovaks, 48 Ukrainians and 39 Germans. 11,452 people lived in Pecica in the strict sense, the rest in the three incorporated towns.

traffic

Pecica has a train station on the route from Arad to Nădlac . This connection is currently (2008) operated exclusively by the private operator Regiotrans . There are currently eight pairs of trains running daily. Bus traffic is also important (regular connections to Arad and Peregu Mare ). Drum național 7 , which is part of European route 68 , runs through the city .

Attractions

The historic city center around the Roman Catholic Church (1850–1900) is a listed building.
Lunca Mureșului Natural Park

Șanțul Mare archaeological site

Serbian Orthodox Monastery Bezdin (16th century)

Romanian Orthodox Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery (14th century)

Twin cities

Hungary Battonya , Hungary (1996)
Belgium Woluwe-Saint-Pierre , Belgium (2006)

Personalities

Pero (Petru) Seghedinat (? –1735), Serbian captain, leader of a peasant uprising in the Banat.
Zsigmond Ormós (1813–1894), Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and art historian
Roman Ciorogariu (1852–1936), Orthodox Bishop of Oradea