| Sviniţa Свињица / Svinjica |
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| — Commune — | |
| Location of Sviniţa within Mehedinţi County | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | Romania |
| County | Mehedinţi County |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Iovan Ivanovici (Jovan Ivanović) (since 2004) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 1,086 |
| Postal code | |
Sviniţa (Romanian: Sviniţa, Serbian: Свињица or Svinjica, Hungarian: Szinice) is a commune in Mehedinţi 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, Sviniţa. In 2002, its population numbered 1,132 people and was mostly composed of Serbs. It is one of four localities in the county located in the Banat.
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The name Svinjica means "the pig place" or "little pig" in Serbian.
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.
Ethnic groups (2002 census):[1]
The commune is officially bilingual, with both Romanian and Serbian being used as working languages on public signage and in administration, education and justice.
Most of the inhabitants of the commune (92.49%) are Old Believers by religion, while most of the rest are Orthodox Christians (6.53%).