Sebiș ( hu, Borossebes) is a town in
Arad County
Arad County () is an administrative division ( judeţ) of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crișana and few villages in Banat. The administrative center ...
, western
Transylvania, Romania
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. Situated 82 km from the county capital, Sebiș is one of the most important urban centres in the
Crișul Alb
The Crișul Alb (Romanian), ( Hungarian: Fehér-Körös) is a river in western Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, and in south-eastern Hungary (Békés County).
Its source is in the southern Apuseni Mountains (Romanian: Munții A ...
valley. It administers three villages: Donceni (''Dancsfalva''), Prunișor (''Kertes'') and Sălăjeni (''Szelezsény''). Its territory occupies 61.81 square km in the greater Sebiș Basin, which is a sub-unit of the
Crișul Alb Basin.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, the town has 5,831 inhabitants, of which 90.53% are
Romanians
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, 6.68%
Roma
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, 2.31%
Hungarians
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, and 0,1% are of other or undeclared ethnicities.
History
The first documentary mention of the locality dates back to the year 1552, while later, in 1746 Sebiș had a market status (). Donceni was registered in 1439, Prunișor in 1406 and Sălăjeni in 1574.
Until the end of the 18th century Sebiș had been under Ottoman occupation and later under Habsburg administration. During the latter period the settlement had undergone an accentuated development.
Economy
The
Sebiș Solar Park, completed in December 2013, has about 317,000 state-of-the-art
thin film photovoltaic panels, for a total nameplate capacity of 65 megawatts. This is the largest photovoltaic power station in Romania, built at a cost of €100 million.
Tourism
For the tourists Sebiș is the point of departure towards the superior course of the Crișului Alb River, towards the thermal bath in
Moneasa
Moneasa ( hu, Menyháza) is a commune in Arad County, Romania. Its administrative surface stretches over and it is composed of two villages, Moneasa and Rănușa (''Kisróna'').
Geography
The commune is located in the northeastern part of Arad ...
and towards the peaks of the Codru-Moma Mountains.
Natives
*
Mihai Beniuc
Mihai Beniuc (; 20 November 1907 – 24 June 1988) was a Romanian socialist realist poet, dramatist, and novelist.
He was born in 1907 in Sebiș, Arad County (at the time in Austria-Hungary), and attended the Moise Nicoară High School in Arad ...
References
External links
Site dedicated to the city
Populated places in Arad County
Towns in Romania
Localities in Crișana
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