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Also known as Aga, Brestowatz

Brestovăț (, until 1892 Bresztovác; ; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County. It is composed of five villages: Brestovăț (commune seat), Coșarii, Hodoș, Lucareț and Teș. == History == Brestovăț first appears in written history as Breztolcz in 1440; at that time, it belonged to the Șoimoș Fortress. It was destroyed during the Turkish occupation and resettled in 1718–1722. Turks called it Aga, an unofficial name that persisted for a while and was taken over by Hungarians and later by the Romanian administration.

Key facts

Romanian subdivision.type
commune
Romanian subdivision.county
Timiș
Romanian subdivision.population_total
auto
Romanian subdivision.image_map
Brestovat jud Timis.svg
Romanian subdivision.map_caption
Location in Timiș County
Romanian subdivision.leader_name
Eugen Dobra
Romanian subdivision.leader_term
2004–
Romanian subdivision.leader_party
PNL
Romanian subdivision.established_date
1440 (first attested)
Romanian subdivision.subdivisions
Brestovăț, Coșarii, Hodoș, Lucareț, Teș
Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
RO TM Lucaret 23.jpg
Romanian subdivision.image_caption
The Serbian wooden church in Lucareț
Romanian subdivision.area_total_km2
103.17
Romanian subdivision.postal_code
307085–307089

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Brestovăț
Population
675
Area
103.150000
Elevation
133.000000
Image
RO TM Lucaret 24.jpg
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native label
Brestovac
postal code
307085
phone number
+40-256231460
street address
Brestovăţ nr.20, 307085
email address
mailto:[email protected]
Commons category
Brestovăț commune, Timiș
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Brestovăț (, until 1892 Bresztovác; ; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County. It is composed of five villages: Brestovăț (commune seat), Coșarii, Hodoș, Lucareț and Teș. == History == Brestovăț first appears in written history as Breztolcz in 1440; at that time, it belonged to the Șoimoș Fortress. It was destroyed during the Turkish occupation and resettled in 1718–1722. Turks called it Aga, an unofficial name that persisted for a while and was taken over by Hungarians and later by the Romanian administration.

Between 1735 and 1737, 113 families of Montenegrin Serbs, mostly Orthodox, settled here. In 1797, Brestovăț became the property of the Lukács brothers, who colonized a large number of Hungarian and Slovak settlers here. Around 1828, now a property of Iosif Gaal, it was again colonized by Hungarians from Nógrád, Nyitra and Trencsén. The colonizations do not stop here, because in 1840–1845, German settlers from Bohemia arrived in Brestovăț.

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