Sintea Mare

Sintea Mare Nagyszintye, Szinte
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Screeching area
Circle :	Arad
Coordinates :	46 ° 31 '  N , 21 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '11 "  N , 21 ° 36' 19"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	117.46  km²
Residents :	3,742 (2011)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	317300
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 57
License plate :	AR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Sintea Mare, Adea and Țipar
Mayor :	Erdős Valentin ( UDMR )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 228 loc. Sintea Mare, jud. Arad, RO-317300
Website :	www.comunasinteamare.ro

Location of Sintea Mare in the Arad district

Sintea Mare (Hungarian: Nagyszintye , Szinte ) is a municipality in the Arad district , in the Kreischgebiet , in western Romania . The villages of Adea and Țipar also belong to the municipality of Sintea Mare .

Geographical location

Sintea Mare is located in the northwest of the Arad district, in the Kreisch plain, 50 km from the district capital Arad and seven km from Chișineu-Criș . The village is crossed by the White Kreisch .

Neighboring places

Zerind	Mișca	Șepreuș
Chișineu-Criș		Vasile Goldiș
Nădab	Țipari	Gurba

history

The first documented mention of Villa Sinka comes from 1337.

Over the centuries different spellings of the place name appeared: 1338 Zynta , 1340 Zintha , 1342 Zynche , 1459 Zenthay , 1467 Kyssynthe , 1510 Zenthay , 1531 Zyntha , 1553 Zentha , 1722 Szintye , 1808 Szintye , Szente , 1913 Szinte , 1909 Sintea , Szintye , 1919 Sintea Mare .

The place name goes back to the Hungarian officer Stefan Szenteny.

After the Peace of Karlowitz (1699), Arad and the Maroscher Land came under Austrian rule , while the Banat south of the Marosch remained under Turkish rule until the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) . On the Josephine land survey is Szintye entered.

As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Arad region, like the whole of Banat and Transylvania, was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy . The official place name was Nagyszintye .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the regulation of borders , whereby Sintea Mare fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	2897	1326	1529	25th	17th
1910	7118	2004	3684	578	852
1930	6462	2124	2853	568	917
1977	4342	1869	1658	280	535
1992	3594	1651	1473	124	346
2002	3669	1836	1386	58	389

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Sintea Mare town hall
• virtualarad.net , Sintea Mare on VirtualArad

Individual evidence

1. ↑ citypopulation.de , census October 20, 2011
2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
3. ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com , History of the Transylvanian Locations
4. ↑ comunasinteamare.ro ( Memento of June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), The history of the parish of Sintea Mare
5. ↑ kia.hu , E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnicity in the Arad district according to censuses from 1880–2002