Uivar ( hu, Újvár; german: Neuburg an der Bega) is a
commune in
Timiș County
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,
Romania
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. It is composed of four villages: Pustiniș, Răuți, Sânmartinu Maghiar and Uivar (commune seat). Two other villages, Otelec and Iohanisfeld, which had been part of Uivar commune since 1968, were split off in 2008 to form
Otelec commune.
Name
History
Remains of Neolithic, Daco-Roman and medieval settlements were discovered on the territory of the commune. Archaeological excavations here revealed a Neolithic settlement from the 5th millennium BC that belongs to the
Vinča culture.
The first recorded mention of Uivar dates from 1811, when 50 German families were colonized here.
Each family then received 32
jugers of arable land. In 1851 a new wave of colonization took place, this time with Hungarians from the
Szeged area and Germans. The village then became German-Hungarian, but over time the Hungarian element dissipated, leaving an overwhelming majority of Germans. After
World War II
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, their number began to decline sharply and they were gradually replaced by Romanians. Today the village is mostly Romanian.
Demographics
Uivar had a population of 2,453 inhabitants at the 2011 census, down 10% from the 2002 census. Most inhabitants are
Romanians
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(73.79%), larger minorities being represented by
Hungarians
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(16.06%) and
Roma
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(4.65%). For 4.4% of the population, ethnicity is unknown.
By religion, most inhabitants are
Orthodox
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(56.34%), but there are also minorities of
Roman Catholic
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s (20.67%),
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s (12.19%) and
Pentecostal
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References
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Communes in Timiș County
Localities in Romanian Banat