Ghiroda Nouă ( hu, Újgiroda, also ''Erzsébetpuszta''; german: Neugiroda) is a district of

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, located in the eastern part of the city, north of the

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. Originally called Colonia Crișan ( hu, Krizsántelep; german: Krischan Kolonie), the area was populated around 1750, when there was a rice mill here. It was annexed to Timișoara in 1949.

History

In 1711, Pasha Hassan had his summer residence here; the residence came into the possession of the Austrians after the siege of 1716. Part of the Austrian army was stationed in Ghiroda under the command of Count

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. During the

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under Count Claude Florimond de Mercy (1723–1725) Ghiroda is registered as an inhabited place with a church and 24 houses. Mainly

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and

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s were grown in the so-called ''Girodaer Hotter''. Ghiroda was a Romanian settlement with an Orthodox church. A Romanian school, one of the first in Romania, opened here in 1774.

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Districts of Timișoara {{Timiș-geo-stub