Oraviţa
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| Location of Oraviţa | |||
| Country | |||
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| County | Caraş-Severin County | ||
| Status | Town | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Ion Goga (Democratic Party) | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 168.9 km2 (65.2 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2002) | |||
| - Total | 15,265 | ||
| - Density | 9045°2′25″N 21°41′7″E / 45.04028°N 21.68528°E/km2 (Expression error: Unrecognised word "span"/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Website | http://www.oravita.ro/ | ||
Oraviţa (Hungarian: Oravicabánya, German: Orawitz, in archaic Czech: Oravice) is a town in southwestern Romania, in the Caraş-Severin County, with a population of 15,524 in 2000. Its theatre is a fully functional scaled down version of the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Agadici (Hungarian: Agadics, German: Agaditsch) is a small village administered by Oraviţa.
The history of Agadici can be traced back to at least the 1600s, when records noted a population of "800 souls". Today, there are fewer than 200 people living in Agadici.
Agadici is a word derived from Turkish; Aga meaning 'colonel' and dici meaning 'daughter'. Therefore, Agadici means, "daughter of the colonel". The town was supposedly named after a colonel's daughter when the Ottoman Empire occupied the land that is now the Banat.
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