Parța

Parța (Hungarian: Parác; German: Paratz; Serbian: Парац, romanized: Parac) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Parța, and was part of Șag commune until 2004.^[3]

Parța was first documented in 1334 as Parkas, and in 1417 the settlement of Maraz, with town (market) status, is recorded near Parța.^[1] At the conscription (census) carried out in 1717 by the Austrians, after the conquest of Banat, the settlement had 84 houses and was called Paraz.^[1]

In 1878, during the regularization of the Timiș River, traces of a Neolithic settlement on three levels were discovered here, in which pottery specific to the Vinča culture was found. The first systematic excavations of the site began in 1931 and were completed only in 1985.^[4] Over the course of five decades, the following have been discovered here: two Neolithic sanctuaries, one with monumental statues, relocated and restored in Timișoara's National Museum of Banat, another overlapping the first one from which only one altar has been preserved, household shrines or altars, about 150 houses and complexes and four dwellings with 4–5 rooms, some of which have a suspended floor or an upper floor.^[5]

Parța tenía una población de 2351 habitantes en el censo de 2021, un 8,24 % más que en el censo de 2011. La mayoría de los habitantes son rumanos (81,53 %), mientras que las minorías más importantes están representadas por los romaníes (3,27 %), los húngaros (1,99 %) y los serbios (1,23 %). Para el 11,35 % de la población, se desconoce la etnia. ^{[ 6 ]} Por religión, la mayoría de los habitantes son ortodoxos (52,14 %), pero también hay minorías de católicos griegos (15,31 %), pentecostales (11,14 %), católicos romanos (5,82 %) y bautistas (1,19 %). Para el 11,95 % de la población, se desconoce la afiliación religiosa. ^{[ 7 ]}

La comuna de Parța está administrada por un alcalde y un consejo local compuesto por 11 concejales. El alcalde, Daniel Drăgan, del Partido Nacional Liberal , ocupa el cargo desde 2020. A partir de las elecciones locales de 2024 , el consejo local tiene la siguiente composición por partidos políticos: ^{[ 9 ]}

• Stelian Olariu (1928-2017), director de orquesta