Oraviţa

Oraviţa
	Oraviţa
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Location of Oraviţa
Country	Romania
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/

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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.