Ciacova

Ciacova
Town
Skyline of Ciacova
Ciacova
Coordinates:
Country	Romania
County	Timiș
Government
• Mayor	Petru Filip (PD-L)
Population (2011)	5,348
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Ciacova (German: Tschakowa; Hungarian: Csák, before 1913 Csákova; Serbian: Чаково/Čakovo; Turkish: Çakova) is a town in Timiș County, western Romania, in the Banat region. According to the 2011 census, it had 5,348 inhabitants.

Ciacova is located at 28 km (17 mi) from Timișoara and 30 km (19 mi) from the Serbian border. The town administers four villages: Cebza (Csebze), Macedonia (Macedónia), Obad (Obád) and Petroman (Petromány). When it was declared a town in 2004, Gad and Ghilad villages, which it administered up to that point, were split off to form Ghilad Commune.

Demographics

Census		Ethnicity
Year	Population	Romanians	Germans	Hungarians	Roma	Serbs	Slovaks	Other
1880	12,960	7,611	3,166	762	-	1,328	24	69
1900	15,562	8,529	4,009	1,586	-	1,212	35	191
1930	13,566	8,289	2,666	1,409	288	744	20	150
1977	9,952	7,111	1,047	987	392	355	2	58
1992	7,457	5,802	304	709	398	195	2	47
2002	7,285	5,850	191	613	426	151	3	51
2011	5,348	4,266	88	333	229	66	0	33

^{^} Includes 26 Ukrainians. Data were unavailable for 333 inhabitants.

Macedonia

The village of Macedonia had 470 people in 2002.

Census		Ethnic structure
Year	Population	Romanians	Germans	Hungarians	Other ethnicities
1880	767	682	43	14	11
1910	1,089	988	30	43	28
1941	912	866	9	11	26
1977	606	581	3	1	21
1992	462	413	1	2	46 (43 Romani people)

Natives

• Spiridon Jovanović, Serbian educator in Niš
• Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), Serbian author, philosopher, linguist, traveler, polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia
• Emmerich Stoffel (1913–2008), Romanian communist politician of Swabian origin