Criciova
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Criciova (; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Cireșu, Cireșu Mic (depopulated), Criciova (commune seat) and Jdioara.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- commune
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Timiș
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Criciova jud Timis.svg
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Timiș County
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Cristian-Iosif Cătană
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Romanian subdivision.name
- Criciova
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- Cetatea Jdioarei.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- Ruins of the Jdioara Fortress
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- ROU TM Criciova CoA.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.area_total_km2
- 50.51
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 307130–307133
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Romania
- Official name
- Criciova
- Country
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Located in
- Timiș County
- Capital
- Criciova
- Population
- 1493
- Area
- 50.510000
- Elevation
- 147.000000
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Gavojdia
- Official website
- www.e-primarii.ro/~criciova
- Image
- Cetatea Jdioara.JPG
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- contains settlement
- Jdioara
- postal code
- 307130
- native label
- Кричова
- phone number
- +40-256335807
- street address
- str Principala nr 51A
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- Commons category
- Criciova commune, Timiș
- historical region
- Banat
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demographics
- Politics and administration
- References
Criciova (; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Cireșu, Cireșu Mic (depopulated), Criciova (commune seat) and Jdioara.
== History == Criciova was first mentioned in 1444 as Krychyowa, although it is much older. The fragments of masonry discovered here in the late 1970s attest that the village has existed since Roman Dacia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Criciova” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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