Curtea ( hu, Kurtya) is a
commune in
Timiș County,
Romania. It is composed of three villages: Coșava ( hu, Kossó), Curtea and Homojdia ( hu, Homapatak).
Geography
Curtea is located in the northeast of
Timiș County, close to the border of
Hunedoara County, 110 km from
Timișoara, 45 km from
Lugoj and 12 km from
Făget, the nearest town. Curtea lies at the foothills of
Poiana Ruscă Mountains, at the confluence of Valea Izvorașului with Valea Stâlpului, which, in fact, form the upper course of
Bega River.
History
The first recorded mention of Curtea dates from 1597 (''Kurthe''), when it belonged to
Marzsina District,
Hunyad County
Hunyad (today mainly Hunedoara) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary, of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and of the Principality of Transylvania. Its territory is now in Romania in Transylvania. The capital of the co ...
. Legend has it that Curtea was once the summer residence of Romanian duke
Glad
Glad may refer to:
*Glad (Norse mythology), a horse ridden by the gods in Norse mythology
People
*Emil Glad (1929–2009), Croatian actor
*Ingrid Kristine Glad (born 1965), Norwegian statistician
*John Glad (1941–2015), an American academic, ...
, and Curtea took this name because Glad kept his entire court here (in
Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
''curte'' means "court").
A Turkish possession by 1658, Curtea was a place of refuge for Transylvanian ''
nemes'' (small and medium nobles) in conflict with the Hungarian royal house.
In
Marsigli
Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (or Marsigli, Lat. ''Marsilius''; 10 July 1658 – 1 November 1730) was an Italian scholar and eminent natural scientist, who also served as an emissary and soldier.
Biography
Born in Bologna, he was a member ...
's notes from 1690–1700 it was called ''Kortya'' and belonged to
Facset District, and in the 1717 census it appears as inhabited, with 50 houses.
The first Romanian school was established here in 1776.
The wooden church, which can still be seen today, dates from 1794.
Demographics
Curtea had a population of 1,193 inhabitants at the 2011 census, down 10% from the 2002 census. Most inhabitants are
Romanians (94.05%), with a minority of
Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
Places Australia
* Roma, Queensland, a town
** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
*Roma Street, Brisbane, a ...
(2.1%). For 2.68% of the population, ethnicity is unknown.
By religion, most inhabitants are
Orthodox
Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to:
Religion
* Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...
(80.64%), but there are also minorities of
Pentecostals (12.07%),
Baptists (2.1%) and
Adventist
Adventism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that believes in the imminent Second Coming (or the "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ. It originated in the 1830s in the United States during the Second Great Awakening when Baptist preacher Wil ...
s (1.59%). For 2.68% of the population, religious affiliation is unknown.
References
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Communes in Timiș County
Localities in Romanian Banat
