Svinita

Svinita is a commune in Mehedinți County, Romania, located at the Danube within the location of the Banat referred to as Clisura Dunarii - Banatska Klisura in Serbian. It consists of a single village, Svinita. In 2011, its population numbered 928 human beings and become ordinarily composed of Serbs. It is one in every of 4 localities within the county positioned in the Banat. In the autumn of 1848, the locality turned into the web site of a bold get away of Wallachian revolutionaries saved in Ottoman custody.

Maria Rosetti and Constantin Daniel Rosenthal referred to as on the neighborhood mayor to call for that Ottoman guards hand of their weapons on what changed into on the time Austrian soil, and all men and women arrested were therefore unfastened to go. The commune is formally bilingual, with both Romanian and Serbian being used as running languages on public signage and in administration, training and justice. As of 2011, most of the inhabitants of the commune have been Serbian Orthodox by means of religion, even as maximum of the rest are Romanian Orthodox.