Svinița

Svinița (Romanian: Svinița, Serbian: Свињица or Svinjica, Hungarian: Szinice) is a commune in Mehedinți County, Romania, located on the Danube (in the area of the Banat known as Clisura Dunării – Banatska Klisura in Serbian). It is composed of a single village, Svinița. In 2011, its population numbered 928 people and was mostly composed of Serbs. It is one of four localities in the county located in the Banat.

Svinița Свињица / Svinjica (Serbian) Szinice (Hungarian)
Commune
Ruins at Tri Kule, by the Danube
Location in Mehedinți County
Svinița Location in Romania
Coordinates: 44°30′N 22°06′E
Country	Romania
County	Mehedinți
Government
• Mayor	Nicolaie Curici (since 2008)
Area	91.45 km^2 (35.31 sq mi)
Elevation	135 m (443 ft)
Population  (2011)[1]	925
• Density	10/km^2 (26/sq mi)
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Postal code	227440
Vehicle reg.	MH

Name

The name Svinjica means "the pig place" or "little pig" in Serbian.

History

In the autumn of 1848, the locality was the site of a daring escape of Wallachian revolutionaries kept in Ottoman custody. Maria Rosetti and Constantin Daniel Rosenthal called on the local mayor to demand that Ottoman guards hand in their weapons on what was at the time Austrian soil, and all persons arrested were consequently free to go.

Demographics

South Slavic communities in southwestern Romania

Ethnic groups (2011 census):[2]

• Serbs (90.3%)
• Romanians (6.5%)
• Romani (0.9%)

Languages

The commune is officially bilingual, with both Romanian and Serbian being used as working languages on public signage and in administration, education and justice.

Religion

As of 2011, most of the inhabitants of the commune (90.3%) were Serbian Orthodox by religion, while most of the rest are Romanian Orthodox (6.5%).[3]

Notes

1. "Populaţia stabilă pe judeţe, municipii, oraşe şi localităti componenete la RPL_2011" (in Romanian). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
2. Tab8. Populaţia stabilă după etnie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 2 March 2020.
3. Tab13. Populaţia stabilă după religie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 2 March 2020.

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