Svinița
Communes in Mehedinți County, Romania
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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. It is one of four localities in the county located in the Banat.
Svinița
Свињица / Svinjica | |
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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 (2020–2024) | Nicolaie Curici[1] (PSD) |
Area | 91.45 km2 (35.31 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 135 m (443 ft) |
| Population (2021-12-01)[2] | 741 |
| • Density | 8.10/km2 (21.0/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 227440 |
| Area code | +(40) 252 |
| Vehicle reg. | MH |
| Website | primariasvinita |
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
At the 2011 census, Svinița had 925 inhabitants, of which 90.3% were Serbs, 6.5% Romanians, 0.9% Roma, and 2.3% others or of unknown ethnic origin.[3] Most of the inhabitants of the commune (90.3%) were Serbian Orthodox by religion, while most of the rest were Romanian Orthodox (6.5%).[4] At the 2021 census, the population had decreased to 741; of those, 87.85% were Serbs and 6.61% Romanians.[5]
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