Dudestii Vechi

Dudestii Vechi is a commune in Timis County, Romania. Dudestii Vechi is in the main populated by way of Banat Bulgarians, a local minority organization of ethnic Bulgarians that profess Roman Catholicism, who got here from northern Bulgaria, and who're descendants of Paulicians that settled within the region around 1738. At the 2011 census, the full population of the commune numbered 4203 humans.

Until 1968. The school in Dudestii Vechi turned into based in 1745 through the Bulgarian settlers with the assist of the Roman Catholic Church. It is the oldest faculty of the Bulgarian diaspora and the handiest faculty in Romania in which Bulgarian language is taught to all grades. As of 2004, training in Bulgarian turned into elective, however efforts had been made to transform the school right into a bilingual one. The commune is composed of three villages: Cheglevici , Colonia Bulgara and DudeStii Vechi. It also included Valcani village until 2005, when it was split off to form a separate commune.