Dudeştii Vechi
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| Dudeştii Vechi Stár Bišnov |
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| Country |  Romania |
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| County | Timiş County | ||
| Status | Town | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Georgi Nakov (Bulgarian Union of the Banat) | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 95.64 km² (36.9 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2005) | |||
| - Total | 5,795 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Website: http://www.e-primarii.ro/~dudestiivechi/index.php | |||
Dudeştii Vechi (Romanian: Dudeştii Vechi, Bulgarian: Стар Бешенов / Star Beshenov, Banat Bulgarian: Stár Bišnov, German: Altbeschenowa, Hungarian: Óbesenyő) is a village and a rural municipality in Timiş County, Romania. Dudeştii Vechi is mostly populated by Banat Bulgarians (Palćene), a regional minority group of ethnic Bulgarians that profess Roman Catholicism, who came from northern Bulgaria, and who are descendants of Paulicians that settled in the area around 1738. Total population of the commune numbering 5,789 people (2002 census).
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[edit] Languages
The commune is officially bilingual, with both Romanian and Bulgarian being used as working languages on public signage and in administration, education and justice.
[edit] Religion
The majority of the inhabitants are Roman Catholic.
[edit] Culture
The school in Dudeştii Vechi was founded in 1745 by the Bulgarian settlers with the help of the Roman Catholic Church. It is the oldest school of the Bulgarian diaspora and the only school in Romania where Bulgarian language is taught to all grades. As of 2004, education in Bulgarian was optional, but efforts were made to transform the school into a bilingual one. [1]
The village also has an imposing Roman Catholic church.(see photo).
[edit] Population
[edit] 2002
According to the 2002 Romanian census, the commune (also including three other villages) had a population of 5,807, a slight majority of which were Banat Bulgarians:
- Banat Bulgarians = 2,987 (51.44%)
- Romanians = 2,368 (40.78%)
- Magyars = 330 (5.68%)
- Roma = 62
- Germans = 44
- Serbs = 16
[edit] 2005
According to official 2005 calculations, the population of the municipality had dropped to 4,486.
[edit] Historical population
[edit] Table
| Census | Ethnic distribution | |||||||||
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| Year | Population | Romanians | Banat Bulgarians | Germans | Magyars | Roma | Serbs | Jews | Slovaks | Rest |
| 1880 | 11,690 | 2,754 | n.d | 1,295 | 1,101 | n.d | n.d | n.d | n.d | 6,366 |
| 1910 | 12,638 | 3,121 | n.d | 1,403 | 2,152 | n.d | n.d | n.d | n.d | 5,962 |
| 1941 | 11,334 | 2,661 | n.d | 1,206 | 1,187 | n.d | n.d | n.d | n.d | 6,280 |
| 1948 | 11,620 | 2,754 | 5,771 | 1,327 | 1,415 | 232 | 53 | 34 | 20 | - |
| 1956 | 9,653 | 2,340 | 5,610 | 478 | 995 | 210 | 6 | 5 | 7 | - |
| 1977 | 8,030 | 2,221 | 4,669 | 319 | 694 | 109 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 1992 | 6,409 | 1,996 | 3,633 | 57 | 379 | 305 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 17 |
| 2002 | 5,807 | 2,368 | 2,987 | 44 | 330 | 62 | 16 | − | − | − |
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