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Also known as Oraviţa, Oravicabánya, Orawitz, Deutsch-Orawitz, Oravice

Oravița (; ; ; ; ) is a town in the Banat region of Romania, in Caraș-Severin County, with a population of 9,346 in 2021. Its theater is a fully functional scaled down version of the old Burgtheater in Vienna.

Key facts

Romanian subdivision.type
town
Romanian subdivision.county
Caraș-Severin
Romanian subdivision.official_name
Oravița
Romanian subdivision.population_total
auto
Romanian subdivision.image_shield
ROU CS Oravita CoA.png
Romanian subdivision.image_map
Oravita jud Caras-Severin.svg
Romanian subdivision.map_caption
Location in Caraș-Severin County
Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
Mâța Neagră (2).JPG
Romanian subdivision.leader_name
Dumitru Ursu
Romanian subdivision.leader_term
2024–2028
Romanian subdivision.leader_party
PSD
Romanian subdivision.elevation
253
Romanian subdivision.area_total
162.64
Romanian subdivision.postal_code
325600

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Villages
  • Agadici
  • Ciclova Montană
  • Natives
  • Climate
  • Anina–Oravița railway
  • References

Oravița (; ; ; ; ) is a town in the Banat region of Romania, in Caraș-Severin County, with a population of 9,346 in 2021. Its theater is a fully functional scaled down version of the old Burgtheater in Vienna.

Six villages are administered by the town: Agadici (Agadics; Agaditsch), Brădișoru de Jos (until 1960 Maidan; Majdán), Broșteni (Brostyán), Ciclova Montană (Csiklóbánya; Montan-Tschiklowa), Marila (Marillavölgy; Marillathal) and Răchitova (Rakitova).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oravița” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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