Ciudanovița
commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania
Ciudanovița (Hungarian: Csudafalva) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania with a population of 444 people. It is composed of two villages, Ciudanovița and Jitin (Dicsény).
Geography
The commune is located in the west-central part of the county, at a distance of 23 km (14 mi) from Oravița and 30 km (19 mi) from the county seat, Reșița.
Demographics
At the 2011 census, Ciudanovița had a population of 657; of those, 92.24% were ethnic Romanians and 1.37% were ethnic Romani. At the 2021 census, the population had decreased to 444, of which 92.57% were ethnic Romanians.
The Ciudanovița uranium mine
In the early 1950s, during the Soviet occupation of Romania, Sovromcuarț, a joint Soviet–Romanian enterprise (SovRom), developed a uranium mine at Ciudanovița. After initial prospections, the Soviets began uranium ore mining in 1952, using their own equipment and employing around 10,000 local workers; the ore was loaded into wagons and transported to the Soviet Union. The mining required significant resources, and as a direct result Ciudanovița grew in population, reaching as high as 35,000 people. There was a local hospital, a cinema, restaurants, places with live music and draft beer and many shops. In 1957, the SovRoms were disbanded, and the exploitation was taken over by the Romanian state, which continued operating the mine until 1964, when the country’s war debts were settled.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ciudanovița” as commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16425994. Authority coordinates are 45.147, 21.763. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2021, 1952 and 1957.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ciudanovița” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.