Svinița

Svinița Свињица / Svinjica
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 (2020–2024)	Nicolaie Curici[1] (PSD)
Area	91.45 km^2 (35.31 sq mi)
Elevation	135 m (443 ft)
Population  (2021-12-01)[2]	741
• Density	8.1/km^2 (21/sq mi)
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Postal code	227440
Area code	+(40) 252
Vehicle reg.	MH
Website	primariasvinita.ro

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.

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

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]

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.

Notes

1. "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
2. "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
3. Tab8. Populaţia stabilă după etnie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 2 March 2020.
4. Tab13. Populaţia stabilă după religie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 2 March 2020.
5. "Populația rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (in Romanian). INSSE. 31 May 2023.

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  The Danube at Svinița
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  View of Svinița from across the Danube