Urziceni (Satu Mare)

Urziceni Schinal Csanálos
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Sathmar
Circle :	Satu Mare
Coordinates :	47 ° 44 '  N , 22 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '5 "  N , 22 ° 23' 59"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	130  m
Area :	32.30  km²
Residents :	1,447 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	447340
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 61
License plate :	SM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Urziceni, Urziceni de Pădure
Mayor :	Iosif Mellau ( DFDR )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 238 loc. Urziceni, jud. Satu Mare, RO-447340
Website :	www.comunaurziceni.ro

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Urziceni [ ˈurzitʃenʲ ] ( German  Schinal , Hungarian Csanálos ) is a municipality in the Satu Mare district in Romania .

The place is also known under the Romanian outdated names Cenaloş , Cienaloş and Ceanaloş and the German name Schöntal .

Geographical location

The municipality of Urziceni is located in the historical Sathmar County in northwest Romania. The small border town of Urziceni is located at Drum național 1F on the border with Hungary .

Demographics

The population development of the municipality of Urziceni:

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	1,162	6th	582	532	2
1930	1,930	314	206	1.317	51
1956	2,076	219	1,815	14th	28
2002	1,509	141	1,027	339	2
2011	1,447	154	805	346	142

Since 1880 the highest number of inhabitants in the area of ​​today's municipality was determined in 1956. The highest population of the Magyars (1,851) was registered in 1941, that of the Romanian Germans (1,594) in 1920, that of the Romanians in 1930 and that of the Roma (118) in 2011. In 1930, 25 residents identified themselves as Ukrainians .

Personalities

• József Tempfli (1931–2016), Roman Catholic Bishop of Oradea Mare .

Web links

• Urziceni at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ^ Dictionary of localities from Transylvania
3. ↑ Urziceni at arcanum.hu
4. ↑ E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in the Satu Mare district according to censuses from 1850 / 1880–2002 (Hungarian; PDF; 633 kB)