Jamu Mare
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Jamu Mare (German: Freudenthal or Gross-Scham, Hungarian: Nagyzsám) is a rural municipality and village in Timiş County, Banat, Romania.
There are four other villages that belong to the Jamu Mare commune: Clopodia, Ferendia, Gherman and Lăţunaş. The village of Jamu Mare has a population of 1,414 while the whole commune has a population of 3,257 people.
The village was first mentioned in a document in 1370, under the name "Suma". The name means in Romanian "Greater Jam/Žam". On the other side of the border, in Serbia, there is a village called Mali Žam (Lesser Žam/Jam).
In 2002, in the commune there were 2,894 Romanians, 240 Hungarians, 63 Germans, 73 Roma people and 54 people from other ethnic groups.
Jamu Mare is now a rail terminus, but between 1925 and 1930, trains would pass through it all the way to Vršac in present-day Serbia.
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