Pesac

Pesac Pesak Pészak
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Timiș
Coordinates :	46 ° 0 ′  N , 20 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  N , 20 ° 50 ′ 6 ″  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Residents :	2,162 (2002)
Postal code :	307316
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 56
License plate :	TM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Pesac
Mayor :	Cornel Toma ( PSD )
Postal address :	No. 360 loc. Pesac, jud. Timiș, RO-307316
Website :	www.primariapesac.ro

Location of Pesac in Timiș County

Pesac (German: Pesak , Hungarian: Pészak , Pésznack ) is a municipality in Timiș County , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania .

Geographical location

Pesac is located in the northwest of Timiș County, 25 km east of Sânnicolau Mare and 44 km northwest of Timișoara , on the DJ692 Lovrin - Periam county road .

Neighboring places

Sânnicolau Mare	Sânpetru Mare	Periam
Tomnatic		Variaș
Lovrin	Bulgăruș	Șandra

history

In 1399 the place appears for the first time in a Hungarian document under the name "Puerseegh". In 1426 he was mentioned under the name "Pwrsegh" and in 1549 he was called "Persek". In 1768 Romanians came to Pesak from the neighboring Sânpetru Sârbesc (today: Sânpetru Mare ). 1774 was "Pesak, a Wallachian village".

In 1799 the landlord Bayzath brought 62 families Romanian serfs from the area around Sibiu . Later his brother brought German colonists from the surrounding villages.

On June 4, 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon . The largest, eastern part, to which Pesak also belonged, fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

Until 2007 Pesac belonged administratively to the municipality of Periam . Pesac has been an independent municipality since 2007.

Demographics

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	2953	2202	13	627	111
1910	2986	2223	97	479	187
1930	2721	2018	51	458	194
1977	2213	1999	10	123	81
2002	2162	1887	12	13	250

Web links

• cjtimis.ro , Primăria Pesac
• ghidulprimariilor.ro , The municipality of Pesac

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
2. ↑ kia.hu , (PDF; 982 kB) E. Varga: Statistics of the number of inhabitants by ethnic group in the Timiș district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002