Sannicolau Mare

Sannicolau Mare is a town in Timis County, Romania and the westernmost of the us of a. Located within the Banat area, alongside the borders with Serbia and Hungary, it has a populace of simply below 12,000. In German, it's miles called Gross Sankt Nikolaus, in Hungarian as Nagyszentmiklos. It is translated as "Great St. Nicholas" in English. Near Sannicolau Mare there are the remains of Morisena, an historical town, seat of Roman legions and of medieval dukes of Banat.

After the Treaty of Passarowitz till 1918, Sannicolau Mare and the Banat changed into part of the Austrian monarchy, Temes District; in Transleithania after the compromise of 1867 in Austria-Hungary. In the overdue 18th century, the Habsburg dynasty of Austria recruited German farmers and artisans to resettle regions alongside the Danube that were depopulated throughout the Ottoman reign and the plague. They had been allowed to maintain their own faith, language and culture, and plenty of German villages have been founded within the Banat.