Cenad

Cenad
Commune
Cenad
Coordinates: 46°8′N 20°35′E / 46.133°N 20.583°E
Country  Romania
County Timiș County
Population (2011)[1] 4,042
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Cenad (Hungarian: Csanád; Serbian: Чанад) is a commune in Timiș County, Banat, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Cenad.

History

Cenad was known until the 13th century as Morisena. The legionary camp of the Legio XIII Gemina was located there. In the Middle Ages, the site was a temporary capital for Avars and then for Huns. In 1028 or 1030, Chanadinus, a local pretender to Ahtum's duchy, rebelled against Ahtum and conquered the duchy with the help of Magyars.[2]

Demography

Census Ethnicities
Year Population Romanians Germans Hungarians Serbs Gypsies Others
1880 6,982 2,074 3,166 128 1,495 - 6
1900 7,389 2,246 3,244 211 1,583 - 1
1930 7,236 2,120 2,985 655 1,216 227 22
1977 5,022 2,023 1,419 682 654 229 10
1992 3,991 2,304 83 734 401 450 18
2002 4,263 2,812 48 677 266 371 89
2011 4,042 2,674 24 519 - 534 291

At the 2011 census, 66.2% of inhabitants were Romanians, 13.2% Roma, 12.8% Hungarians, 0.6% Germans and 7.2% other.

Coordinates: 46°08′N 20°35′E / 46.133°N 20.583°E

References

  1. ↑ Romanian census data, 2011; retrieved on May 22, 2012
  2. ↑ I. A. Pop, Românii și maghiarii în secolele IX-XIV. Geneza statului medieval în Transilvania, p. 133-36. Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Fundația Culturală Română, Cluj-Napoca, 1996