Chișineu-Criș ( Hungarian: ''Kisjenő'') 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 ...

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Geography

The town is situated on the north-western side of the county, at a distance from Arad, the county seat. The administrative territory stretches over on the Crișul Alb Plateau, on both sides of the river

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 ...

. The town was formed by merging the villages of Chișineu Mic and Pădureni. The town administers one village, Nădab (''Nadab'').

Demographics

In 1910, the town had 2821 inhabitants: 1376 (48.8%) spoke Hungarian, 1355 (48%) spoke

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, 49 (1.7%) spoke

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. In 2011, 73.5% of inhabitants were

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, 19.3%

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and 6.3%

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Economy

Although the town economy is predominant agricultural, during the last decade the second and third economic sectors had a growing evolution. For most of the tourists Chișineu-Criș is a transit town towards central and

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. The most attractive sightseeing spot of the town is the Crișul Alb River and its banks covered with abundant vegetation.

Tourist attractions

The archaeological discoveries brought to light traces of habitation much older than the documentary attestation of the town. The most important archaeological discoveries that attest the continuity of habitation in the area revealed objects older than 2,500 years in several locations of the town. Also two settlements dated back to the 3rd5th and 10th11th centuries were found here. Chișineu-Criș was first mentioned as "villa Jeneusol" in the years 1202–1203. Nădab village is attested in a document of 1334 as "Nodob".

Natives

* John Balaban *

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Claudiu Drăgan Claudiu Drăgan (born 18 March 1979) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a striker. In his almost 20 years of career Drăgan played for teams such as: UTA Arad, Dinamo București, Jiul Petroșani, Progresul București or ...

Gheorghe Gaston Marin Gheorghe Gaston Marin (April 14, 1918, Chișineu-Criș – February 25, 2010, Bucharest) was a Romanian communist politician who had many roles under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceaușescu. He was born Gheorghe Grossmann in Pădureni, Arad ...

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Sergiu Samarian Sergiu Samarian (10 June 1923, in Chişineu-Criş, Romania – 3 June 1991, in Heidelberg) was a Romanian–German chess master and coach. Samarian played in 1st European Individual Chess Championship (''Europameisterschaft'') at Munich 1942, an ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chisineu-Cris Populated places in Arad County Towns in Romania Localities in Crișana