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Timișoara Metropolitan Area
The Timișoara metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in Timiș County, which includes Timișoara and 14 surrounding communes. It was legally established in 2008 as an inter-community development association and is a member of the Federation of Metropolitan Areas and Urban Agglomerations in Romania (FZMAUR). History The first attempts to create a metropolitan area appeared in 1999–2000, when Timișoara and six peri-urban communes in the first ring surrounding the city (Dumbrăvița, Timiș, Dumbrăvița, Ghiroda, Giroc, Moșnița Nouă, Săcălaz and Sânmihaiu Român) entered into a local partnership. The result of this partnership was the elaboration of a medium- and long-term "strategic concept of economic and social development". In 2004, by a decision of the Timiș County Council, the first Metropolitan Consultative Council was established. The delimitation of the area of influence was approved by HCL no. 387/2008. Geography The total area on which the Timișoara met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Areas In Romania
Metropolitan areas in Romania are private agencies of public utility which were established by Law no. 351 of 6 July 2001 with the aim of encouraging the development of neighboring towns and communes within a radius of 30 km. The first to be established was the metropolitan area of Iași, on 8 April 2004, while the last is that of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, on 28 August 2019. There are 24 metropolitan areas in Romania that have been constituted as of 2019. Legislative status The 2001 legislation regulates the status of the 319 cities in Romania according to their population and regional importance (Law no. 351 of 6 July 2001): * rank 0 – the capital of Romania, municipality of European importance; * rank I – municipalities of national importance, with potential influence at European level; * rank II – municipalities of inter-county or county importance or with a balancing role in the network of localities; * rank III – towns. Legislation also restricts the possibility to eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pișchia
Pișchia ( or ''Piski''; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Bencecu de Jos, Bencecu de Sus, Murani, Pișchia (commune seat) and Sălciua Nouă. Name Geography Pișchia is located in the north of Timiș County, north of Timișoara, in the contact area between Lipova Hills and Timis Plain. It covers an area of . History The first mentions of Pișchia appear in the papal tithe records of 1333, in which it is said that the Catholic priest Johannes of Pisky paid 18 kreutzers to the Catholic church. The old village was further south of today's Pișchia, between the Beregsău River and the Roman walls. During the Turkish rule of Banat, the locality decays, because in Marsigli's notes from 1690–1700 he does not mention it. At the census made by the Austrians in 1717, immediately after their conquest of Banat, the locality called ''Peschkan'' had only eight houses left. Shortly after the installation of the Austrian administration, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevereșu Mare
Chevereșu Mare (; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Chevereșu Mare (commune seat), Dragșina and Vucova. Geography Chevereșu Mare is located in the central-southern part of Timiș County, in the place where three plains meet: the hilly plain of Gătaia, the gulf of Lugoj and the low plain of Timiș. It borders the commune of Racovița and the town of Buziaș to the east, the commune of Nițchidorf to the south, the communes of Sacoșu Turcesc and Moșnița Nouă to the west and the commune of Remetea Mare and the town of Recaș to the north. Hydrography The Timiș River is the northern border of the commune. Chevereșu Mare is crossed by a small canalized stream called Șurgani (locally Șorcan). It springs northwest of Buziaș, in the Dumbrava Forest, flowing into the Timiș River, on the left side, just upstream from the strand at Albina. A dry arm of Șurgani, Vâna, crosses the Corneanț neighborhood. In the past, Chever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peciu Nou
Peciu Nou (; or ''Neuwien'', "New Vienna"; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Diniaș, Peciu Nou (commune seat) and Sânmartinu Sârbesc. Name History The territory of the commune has been inhabited since ancient times. During the Dacian statehood and the Roman rulership, a Roman colony was established here under the name ''Vibech''. During the Migration Period, Peciu Nou fell under Hungarian rule; the first recorded mention of Peciu Nou also comes from this time (1332, ''Veybech''). Between 1401–1406, the locality was a royal domain with urban status (''opidum regis Vybech''). In 1526 Hungary became a pashalik; after this period the sultan colonized many Serbs in Banat, and the name of the locality was changed from ''Vibech'' to ''Peciui''. The locality did not appear on Count Mercy's maps from 1723–1725, suggesting that the settlement was destroyed during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars. The first German settlers arrived here ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacoșu Turcesc
Sacoșu Turcesc (; ) is a communes of Romania, commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Berini, Icloda, Otvești, Sacoșu Turcesc (commune seat), Stamora Română, Uliuc and Unip. Name History The first recorded mention of Sacoșu Turcesc dates from 1321, when, in a Hungarian noble diploma, the village of ''Zekes'', belonging to Krassó-Szörény County, Szörény County, is mentioned. Also here is attested from 1440 a castle, which belonged to the Hungarian noble family Kórógy. In 1459 the castle came into the possession of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and then he ceded it to the Hungarian noble family . In 1473 the castle was owned by Ioan Ungur of Almașu Mare, Nădăștia and the Szobi family. From 1507, the ownership of the castle is taken over by István Werbőczy. The word ''Turcesc'' ("Turkish") in the name of the locality does not indicate, as it seemed at first sight, the ethnicity of the villagers, but the Ottoman suzerainty u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pădureni, Timiș
Pădureni (until 1965 Lighed; ; ; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Pădureni. It was part of Jebel commune before being split off in 2004. Geography Pădureni is located about south of Timișoara, at the angle formed by the "dead" Timiș and the "flowing" Timiș. It borders Șag to the north, Liebling to the east, Jebel to the south, and Parța to the northwest. History The first recorded mention of Pădureni dates from 1332, under the name of ''Legvid''. At the same time, there is a village called ''Mira'' (1310), now disappeared, which legend has it was destroyed in a Turkish raid. In an Ottoman defter, around 1590, the name of ''Ligit'' is also mentioned. After this moment no other data are known until 1761, when it appears again mentioned with the name ''Lighed'' or ''Temeslighed'' and a number of 312 houses. University professor Remus Crețan claims that today's locality was formed towards the end of the Turkish era, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parța
Parța (; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Parța, and was part of Șag commune until 2004. History Parța was first documented in 1334 as ''Parkas'', and in 1417 the settlement of ''Maraz'', with town (market) status, is recorded near Parța. At the conscription (census) carried out in 1717 by the Austrians, after the conquest of Banat, the settlement had 84 houses and was called ''Paraz''. In 1878, during the regularization of the Timiș River, traces of a Neolithic settlement on three levels were discovered here, in which pottery specific to the Vinča culture was found. The first systematic excavations of the site began in 1931 and were completed only in 1985. Over the course of five decades, the following have been discovered here: two Neolithic sanctuaries, one with monumental statues, relocated and restored in Timișoara's National Museum of Banat, another overlapping the first one from which only one altar has been preserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liebling, Timiș
Liebling (formerly Brist; ; or ''Kedvenc'') is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cerna, Iosif and Liebling (commune seat). Geography Liebling is located in the southwest of Timiș County, from Timișoara and from Ciacova, the nearest town. Hydrography Liebling belongs to the Timiș river basin. Tofoaia Valley crosses Liebling to the north, flowing into the Timiș River through the Birda-Lanca Canal. Climate The influence of the Mediterranean and oceanic air masses makes the winters shorter and milder with a positive average temperature of , the coldest month being January. Springs are earlier and warmer, but short and with large temperature variations caused by the activity of cyclones in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Summers are long and hot. Autumns are also long, conducive to harvesting. History The first recorded mention of a settlement on present-day Liebling dates from 1332. The medieval village was called ''Beesd'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Timișoara
This is a list of mayors of Timișoara from 1718, when Banat, including Timișoara, were incorporated into the Kingdom of Hungary, to the present day when it is part of Romania. The position was created on 1 January 1718 by Count Claude Florimond de Mercy, governor of Banat, under the name of magistrate. Until 1780, Timișoara had two magistrates, one German for the German population settled here and one Illyrian or Rascian for the local population. The first German magistrate of the city was , a campaign medical doctor from Bavaria and among the first foreign, Western settlers to arrive in Timișoara. Together with the Rascian magistrate, its task was to enforce measures to maintain public safety and hygiene, collect taxes and enforce the fire authority's regulations. 18th century * , 1718–1719 * Florian Blam, 1719–1720 * , 1720–1722 * , 1722–1742 * Andreas Pfann, 1742–1745 * Peter Mayer, 1745–1749 * Joseph Leibnitzer, 1749–1754 * Michael Auer, 1754–1756 * An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban area, urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share Industry (economics), industries, commercial areas, Transport infrastructure, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple Principal city, principal cities, jurisdictions and Municipality, municipalities: Neighbourhood, neighborhoods, townships, boroughs, City, cities, towns, exurbs, suburbs, County, counties, districts and even State (polity), states and nations in areas like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.In the United States, metropolitan areas are delineated around the Urban Area, core of a core based statistical area, which is defined as an urban area and includes central and outlying counties. In other countries metropolitan areas are sometimes anchored by one Core ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Institute Of Statistics (Romania)
The National Institute of Statistics (, INS) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society. The institute is also responsible for conducting Romania's census every ten years, with the latest census being organised in 2022. Leadership The head of the NIS is currently Tudorel Andrei, while the three vice-presidents are: * Ioan-Silviu VÎRVA, in charge of economic and social statistics * Marian Chivu, in charge of national accounts and the dissemination of statistical information * Beatrix Gered, in charge of IT activities and statistical infrastructure History Romania's first official statistics body was the Central Office for Administrative Statistics (''Oficiul Central de Statistică Administrativă''), established on July 12, 1859, under the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. The organisation, one of the first national statistics organisations in Europe, conducted its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Șag
Șag (; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Șag; Parța village broke off as a separate commune in 2004. Geography Șag is a plain commune, located in the Banat Plain, in the periurban area of Timișoara, away. Șag is situated on the right bank of the Timiș River. On the territory of Șag commune, the Timiș River is dammed on both banks. Șag borders Timișoara to the north, Sânmihaiu Român to the northwest, Parța to the southwest, Pădureni to the south and Giroc to the east. Due to its position, Șag commune is part of the transitional continental climate with influences of the sub-Mediterranean climate, and the diversity and irregularity of the atmospheric processes is characteristic of it. The characteristic vegetation is that of the forest-steppe and is influenced by the vicinity of the southern European geobotanical province. History Prehistory According to the archeological researches and some objects found in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
