Berzasca
commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania
Berzasca (Hungarian: Berszászka, German: Bersaska, Serbian: Берзаска Berzaska) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, in the Banat region of western Romania. It is composed of five villages: Berzasca, Bigăr, Cozla, Drencova, and Liubcova.
Demographics
At the 2002 census, the commune had 3,123 inhabitants, of which 70.5% were Romanians, 14.2% Czechs, 10.8% Serbs, and 3.5% Roma; 82.8% were Romanian Orthodox and 15.6% Roman Catholic. At the 2021 census, Berzasca had a population of 2,132; of those, 61.12% were Romanians, 18.25% Serbs, 8.72% Czechs, and 3.28% Roma.
Villages
Bigăr
Bigăr is a remote Czech-inhabited village established around 1826 in the Southern Carpathians, in the middle of the Iron Gates Natural Park and of the Almăj Mountains. It is one of six Czech villages in the area. The village name should not be mistaken with the Bigăr spring, occurring north of the Almăjului Mountains.
The village occurs north of the Sirina River, a tributary of the Danube, this valley representing a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for botanical reasons. The Sirina River crosses the southern flank of the Almăj Mountains, a massif belonging to the South Carpathians.
The villagers of Bigăr earn their living through farming and logging, while up to the early 1990s their main occupation was mining for the Jurassic coal which occurs abundantly in the Almăjului Mountains.
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