Ramna

Ramna Rawna Rafna
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	45 ° 26 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '8 "  N , 21 ° 41' 22"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	4.03  km²
Residents :	1,540 (2014)
Population density :	382 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	327310
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Ramna, Bărbosu , Valeapai
Mayor :	Magdalen-Valeria Ciurea ( PNL )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 26 loc. Ramna, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO-327310
Website :	www.ramna.ro

Location of Ramna in Caraș-Severin County

Ramna (German: Rawna , Hungarian: Rafna ) is a municipality in the Caraş-Severin district , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania . The Ramna municipality also includes the villages of Bărbosu and Valeapai .

Geographical location

Ramna is located in the northwest of the Caraṣ-Severin County, 40 km from Reșița and 17 km from Bocșa .

Neighboring places

Ersig	Vermeș	Valeapai
Berzovia		Ezeriș
Fizeș	Bocșa	Soceni

history

Over the centuries, different spellings of the place name appeared: 1448 Rawna , 1475 Felsew Ramna , Also Ramna , Rawnapatha , 1492 Ravna , 1561 Rawna , 1576 Rauna , 1636 Rouuna .

The first documentary mention of the Ravna settlement comes from 1364. A document dated November 13, 1400 refers to the serfs of Baron Himfy in Ramna .

On the Josephine land survey of 1717 Rabna belongs to the Werschetz district . After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat .

Rafna is entered in the “History of the Temescher Banat” by Griselini (1776) and Ravna on the map from 1764–1785 .

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 Rafna .

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

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	4031	3937	30th	35	29
1910	4539	4276	66	65	132
1930	4188	3963	16	78	131
1977	2673	2550	21st	5	97
2002	1782	1729	11	7th	35

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Ramna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
2. ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Transylvanian place names
3. ↑ ramna.ro , History of Ramna
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