Vrani

Vrani Wrany Alsóvarány
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	45 ° 2 '  N , 21 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 2 '24 "  N , 21 ° 29' 23"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	35.92  km²
Residents :	1,178 (2014)
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	327430
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Vrani, Ciortea and Iertof
Mayor :	Moată Gheorghe ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 93A loc. Vrani, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO-327430
Website :	primaria-vrani.ro

Location of Vrani in the Caraș-Severin County

Vrani on the Josephine land survey

Vrani (German: Wrany , Hungarian: Alsóvarány ) is a municipality in the Caraş-Severin district , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania . The villages Ciortea and Iertof also belong to the municipality of Vrani .

Geographical location

Vrani is located in the extreme southwest of the Caraș-Severin district, on the border with Serbia . The village is located on the DJ573A Greoni - Iam county road , 20 km from Oravița .

Neighboring places

Sočica / Serbia	Markovac / Serbia	Vărădia
Ciortea		Broșteni
Berliște	Iertof	Răcășdia

history

The first documentary mention dates back to 1402, when Mihai de Vrani was governor of the Sebesch fortress .

In the course of the centuries, different place names appeared: 1476 Waran , 1402 Wran , 1464 Wrani , 1699 Vranya , 1808 Vrany , 1851 Vrány , 1888 Vrány , 1910 Alsóvarány , 1920 Vraniu .

The historian Frigyes Pesty describes in his "History of the Severin Banat" that the place was registered in the "Nota Marsigliana" under the name Franyova , in the years 1690-1700 Vranya and 1723 Vranyova .

Wrann is entered on the Josephine land survey of 1717 . After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat .

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

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	1618	1578	27	6th	7th
1910	1547	1499	8th	12	28
1930	1310	1256	-	10	44
1977	641	531	-	-	110
2002	443	295	2	1	145

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Vrani
• primaria-vrani.ro , Vrani

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. ↑ primaria-vrani.ro , Vrani
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