Ciacova

Ciacova (; ; ; ) is a town in Timiș County, Romania. It administers four villages: Cebza, Macedonia, Obad and Petroman. When it was declared a town in 2004, the villages of Gad and Ghilad, which it administered up to that point, were split off to form Ghilad commune.

== Name == In both Romanian and Hungarian vocabularies, there are the names ceacău (in Romanian), csákó (in Hungarian) and csák (in Old Hungarian): ceacău, meaning "tall and hard military cap made of leather or felt"; it was used until the end of World War II by hunting and targeting troops, then only by police troops. It is therefore possible that Ciacova got its name from this word and meant a locality around a defense post. csák, meaning "peak". Accepting this translation, the Ciacova Fortress is explained as a "peak of defense" against any enemy intervention from the east or southeast. Some local historians claim that the name comes from a Dacian word, ending in "-ava" and therefore Ciacava. However, no documents or other evidence can be found to support this thesis. In 1808 claims that the name Ciacova comes from the Romanian language, but does not provide evidence in support of this statement.