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including a dominant background of the old Czech language. Today, the village includes mainly older people, while the youth work in the Czech
Republic, most of them without immigrating, only to return home for summer holidays or for Christmas. The popular clothes, rural architecture, traditions and language are all well-preserved.
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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 Almăj Mountains. The natives of Bigăr represent a special community in which the Czech language is permanently used,
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and Gornea during raids. Today, the
Romanians of all three villages, in spite of those from Liubcova having lived alongside Serbs for over two centuries, have the same rituals surrounding death, birth and marriage. At the 2002 census, the village had 1258 inhabitants. Romanians formed the majority;
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Danubian Units. The Lower Jurassic continental formation includes well developed bituminous coal seams, extracted until 1995 at Bigär (Palașca) mines, Buschmann, Stanca, Pietrele Albe, Camenița, Cozla and many other former sites, together with a rich fossil flora.
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Romania, 2. Editura Tehnică, Bucharest, 386
538:(Serbian for "Great Hill"), which lies above today's village, 2 km to the east. During the Middle Ages, these individuals maintained the citadels at Dranco (today's Drencova) and Cozla, taking refuge together with the villagers of
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with a population of 3,123 people. It is composed of five villages: Berzasca, Bigăr, Cozla, Drencova and
Liubcova. At the 2002 census, 70.5% of the commune's inhabitants were
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Southern Romanian Banat, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin.
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Bigăr occurs in the upper-middle part of the
Sirinia sedimentary basin, also known as the Svinița - Svinecea Mare sedimentary zone, a basin including
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and of the Almăj Mountains. It is one of six Czech villages in the area. The village name should not be mistaken with the
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Răileanu, G., 1960. Recherches geologiques dans la region Svinița-Fața Mare. Ann. Com. Geol., XXVI-XXVIII: 347-383.
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1291:Localities in Romanian Banat
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1090:Grădinari
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990:Cărbunari
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970:Brebu Nou
681:, Agenda.
547:and 4.4%
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382:Drencova
342:Берзаска
339:Berzáska
336:Bersaska
330:Berzasca
306:Hungarian
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265:Romanians
255:, in the
222:Hungarian
190:Time zone
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1170:Răcășdia
1160:Pojejena
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465:Tertiary
461:Mesozoic
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407:Lubková
300:Romanian
291:Villages
271:, 10.8%
267:, 14.2%
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242:Берзаска
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377:Козла
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366:Cozla
361:Бигар
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347:Bigăr
312:German
269:Czechs
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423:Czech
417:Bigăr
358:Bygr
318:Czech
273:Serbs
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