Jamu Mare

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Field	Value
type	commune
county	Timiș
population_total	auto
image_map	Jamu Mare jud Timis.svg
map_caption	Location in Timiș County
name	Jamu Mare
leader_name	Petre Gagea-Neaga
leader_term	2020–
leader_party	PNL
coordinates
image_skyline	Nagyzsám, római katolikus templom 2022 01.jpg
image_caption	The Roman Catholic church in Jamu Mare
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	207.11
postal_code	307230–307234
website
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Name

In Romanian, the name means "Greater Jam/Žam". On the other side of the border, in Serbia, there is a village called Mali Žam ("Smaller Jam/Žam").

History

Jamu Mare was first documented in 1335, under the name Jam. In 1370 it belonged to Krassó County and was called Suma. In Marsigli's notes from 1690 to 1700 it is called Seham and appears with 67 houses. Between 1730 and 1740 a plague epidemic decimated the population. Thus, with the third German colonization, a new locality was established a little further west of the old settlement. Then 152 houses were built. In 1786, thirty families settled here, and in the autumn of the next year the rest of the newcomers. It was then called Freudenthal. The administration moved the Romanians to the border area, and the houses were assigned to the Germans. At the end of the 18th century, Hungarian statistician recorded that the village called Nagy-Zsám had a population of 1,562 and belonged to the nobleman László Karácsonyi. In 1807 another wave of German colonists from Torontál County settled here. 1809 is considered the year of the effective establishment of the new locality, on the current location. The old Freudenthal colony was gradually abandoned by the Germans, who preferred to move to Jamu Mare, and in 1893, the territory of the colony was incorporated into the current commune.

Demographics

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Census	Ethnic composition	Year	Population	Romanians	Hungarians	Germans	Roma
1880	6,978	3,127	581	2,750	–	–	425
1890	7,727	3,175	813	3,162	–	–	15
1900	8,174	3,535	950	3,074	–	–	20
1910	8,277	3,661	1,097	2,898	–	–	70
1920	3,717	2,415	436	458	–	–	–
1930	7,513	3,656	754	2,527	114	–	406
1941	7,662	3,711	914	2,433	–	–	–
1956	6,283	3,958	738	1,311	–	234	20
1966	5,907	3,932	621	1,079	71	153	12
1977	4,697	3,315	468	686	103	95	6
1992	3,487	2,923	320	114	55	54	5
2002	3,327	2,893	243	63	73	35	3
2011	2,971	2,621	117	29	83	13	–
2021	2,748	2,324	59	15	112	5	–
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Politics and administration

The commune of Jamu Mare is administered by a mayor and a local council composed of 11 councilors. The mayor, Petre Gagea-Neaga, from the National Liberal Party, has been in office since 2020. As from the 2024 local elections, the local council has the following composition by political parties: ::data[format=table]

Party	Seats	Composition
National Liberal Party (Romania)}}"		National Liberal Party
Social Democratic Party (Romania)}}"		Social Democratic Party
Force of the Right}}"		Force of the Right
Alliance for the Union of Romanians}}"		Alliance for the Union of Romanians
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Infrastructure

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Jamu Mare is now a railway terminus, but between 1925 and 1930, trains would pass through it all the way to Vršac in present-day Serbia. The rail station is currently closed, without service.

Four county roads run through the commune.

Notable people

Ioachim Miloia (1897–1940), painter, philosopher and philologist

Notes

References

"Primăria Jamu Mare". Ghidul Primăriilor.
Pesty, Frigyes. (1884). "Krassó vármegye története". Athenaeum R. Társ. Könyvnyomdája.
Szabó, M. Attila. (2003). "Erdély, Bánság és Partium történeti és közigazgatási helységnévtára". Pro-Print Kiadó.
"Fișa Primăriei comunei Jamu Mare". Consiliul Județean Timiș.
"Populația rezidentă după etnie". Institutul Național de Statistică.
"Populația rezidentă după religie". Institutul Național de Statistică.
Varga, E. Árpád. "Temes megye településeinek etnikai (anyanyelvi/nemzetiségi) adatai 1880-2002".
"Alegeri locale 2024". Rezultate Vot.

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