Bogda
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![]() Charlottenburg village, the only Rundling in the Banat region
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Population (2011)[1] | 446 |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Bogda (German: Neuhof; Hungarian: Rigósfürdő, until 1899 Bogda-Rigós) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Altringen, Bogda, Buzad, Charlottenburg, Comeat, and Sintar.
Geography
Bogda is located near the border with Arad County in the historic Banat region, about 50 km (31 mi) northeast of Timișoara.
In Romanian | In German | In Hungarian |
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Altringen | Altringen | Kisrékas |
Bogda | Neuhof | Rigósfürdő |
Buzad | Buzád | |
Charlottenburg | Charlottenburg | Charlottenburg |
Comeat | Lichtenwald | Temeskomját |
Sintar | Buchberg | Bükkhegy |
History
The area was first mentioned as Bagd in a 1436 deed. Part of the Habsburg Banat of Temeswar upon the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz, the settlement appeared as Bogdan in a 1723 chart. In 1770/71 Banat Swabian colonists from Germany settled here in a place called Neuhoff. By the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, the area fell to the Kingdom of Romania.
Under its Hungarian name Bogdarigós, it was the site of a well-known health spa including a chapel and a way of the cross, which existed until the 1948 expropriations in the Socialist Republic of Romania. It later became a Young Pioneer camp and after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 developed to a resort town.
References
- ↑ Romanian census data, 2002; retrieved on March 1, 2010
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