Valcani

Valcani, Vălcani Walkan Valkany
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Timiș
Coordinates :	46 ° 0 '  N , 20 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 0 '18 "  N , 20 ° 23' 46"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	110  km²
Residents :	1,308 (2002)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	307153
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 56
License plate :	TM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Valcani
Mayor :	Dragos ioan Buicu ( PSD )
Postal address :	No. 222 loc. Valcani, jud. Timiș, RO-307153
Website :	www.valcani.ro

Location of Valcani in Timiș County

Valcani on the Josephine land survey (1769–1772)

Valcani (1924: Vălcani , German: Walkan , Hungarian: Valkany ) is a municipality in Timiș County , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania .

Geographical location

Valcani is located in the far west of Timiș County, on the border with Serbia and has a border crossing. The place is located 20 kilometers southwest of Sânnicolau Mare and is the terminus of the Timișoara-Valcani railway line. The Aranka crosses the place before it flows into the Tisza .

Neighboring places

Banatsko Aranđelovo	Colonia Bulgară	Dudeștii Vechi
Vrbica		Tomnatic
Jazovo	Mocrine	Teremia Mica

history

Valcani was first mentioned in 1256 under the name Villa Kywolkan . In 1647 the place belonged to the Csánad family. After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718), when the Banat became a Habsburg crown domain , Valcani was part of the Temescher Banat . Valcani had the status of a municipality from 1877 to 1968, after which it belonged to the municipality of Dudeştii Vechi .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the Banat being divided into three , whereby Valcani fell to the Kingdom of Romania . After a referendum in 2004, Valcani became an independent municipality again. From 1924 to 1925 the place was called Vălcani .

Demographics

The population development of the municipality of Valcani:

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	3549	2635	766	128	20th
1910	4809	3007	1509	136	157
1930	3429	2644	617	82	86
1977	1731	1539	149	10	33
2002	1308	1217	56	3	32

Personalities

• Grațian Sepi (1910–1977), Romanian football player

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Valcani Town Hall

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