Ghizela
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Ghizela (; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Ghizela (commune seat), Hisiaș, Paniova and Șanovița.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- commune
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Timiș
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- Biserica din Paniova.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- The church in Paniova
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Ghizela jud Timis.svg
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Timiș County
- Romanian subdivision.name
- Ghizela
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Ștefan-Ciprian Cenușe
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Romanian subdivision.established_date
- 1880
- Romanian subdivision.area_total_km2
- 92.07
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 307205–307208
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Ghizela (; ; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Ghizela (commune seat), Hisiaș, Paniova and Șanovița.
== History == Ghizela was founded by German colonists in 1880. The journey they took to settle here was a longer one. They came from Giselahein (near Pančevo, in the Serbian Banat), where they had settled in 1868. But before that they had come from the village of Molydorf (near Zrenjanin, now disappeared), founded by the first German colonists in 1832. The first generation of colonists was from Alsace and Lorraine. The new settlement was located on cleared land that belonged to Babșa and Șanovița. The name was given after the village of Giselahein, where the German colonists had come from. In 1906 a second wave of colonization took place, this time with 45 Hungarian families. They formed a separate colony, and the Hungarian state built them a Catholic church in 1909.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ghizela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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