Socol
title: "Socol" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["communes-in-caraș-severin-county", "localities-in-romanian-banat", "serb-communities-in-romania", "czech-communities-in-romania", "place-names-of-slavic-origin-in-romania"] topic_path: "general/communes-in-caras-severin-county" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socol" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | commune |
| county | Caraș-Severin |
| name | Socol |
| other_name | Соколовац |
| image_flag | Flag Socol CS ROU.jpg |
| image_shield | ROU CS Socol CoA.PNG |
| image_skyline | 3.Manastirea sarbeasca "Sfantul Sava" - sat Bazias.jpg |
| image_caption | Saint Sava Church in Baziaș |
| image_map | Socol jud Caras-Severin.png |
| map_caption | Location in Caraș-Severin County |
| leader_name | Olgița Ghiță |
| leader_party | PSD |
| leader_term | 2020–2024 |
| coordinates | |
| elevation | 76 |
| area_total | 75.32 |
| population_total | auto |
| postal_code | 327365 |
| area_code | +(40) 255 |
| website | |
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|type = commune |county = Caraș-Severin |name = Socol |other_name = Соколовац |image_flag = Flag Socol CS ROU.jpg |image_shield = ROU CS Socol CoA.PNG |image_skyline = 3.Manastirea sarbeasca "Sfantul Sava" - sat Bazias.jpg |image_caption = Saint Sava Church in Baziaș |image_location = |image_map = Socol jud Caras-Severin.png |mapsize = |map_caption = Location in Caraș-Severin County |leader_name = Olgița Ghiță |leader_party = PSD |leader_term = 2020–2024 |established_title = |established_date = |coordinates = |elevation = 76 |elevation_min = |elevation_max = |elevation_footnotes = |area_total = 75.32 |area_footnotes = |population_as_of = |population_total = auto |population_footnotes = |postal_code = 327365 |area_code = +(40) 255 |website = Socol (, , ) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania (in the Clisura Dunării area of Banat). It is composed of five villages: Baziaș (Базјаш, Báziás), Câmpia (Луговет, Néramező), Pârneaura (Прњавор), Socol, and Zlatița (Златица, Néraaranyos).
Sokol means "falcon" in Serbian. The commune is officially bilingual, with both Romanian and Serbian being used as working languages on public signage and in administration, education, and justice.
Demographics
|source = Census data |1880 |3,759 |1910 |4,928 |1930 |4,516 |1977 |3,000 |2002 |2,301 |2011 |1,933 |2021 |1,602 At the 2011 census, the population of the commune numbered 1,933 people and included 52.9% Serbs, 36.8% Romanians, 5.6% Roma, 3.7% Czechs, and 0.6% Hungarians. At the 2021 census, Socol had a population of 1,602; of those, 49.13% were Romanians, 38.39% Serbs, and 2.75% Czechs.
Baziaș
Baziaș is a village of Socol commune, notable as the place where the Danube enters Romania, and where, in 1854, the first railway line was opened on the territory of present-day Romania—the line ran from Baziaș to Oravița, at a time when the area was under Austrian administration. The village has a significant Serbian heritage, being the site of Baziaș Monastery, said to have been founded in 1225 by Saint Sava while on a brief refuge there, and rebuilt several times. The local forest includes several protected plant species.
Natives
- Miodrag Belodedici (born 1964), a former world-class soccer player
- Petru Dumitriu (1924–2002), novelist
References
|File:Danube at bazias.jpg|The Danube at Baziaș |File:Baziaș Romania. Postcard from Austro Hungarian times (10755347984).jpg|Shipping station in Baziaș (postcard from Austro-Hungarian times) |File:Fortepan 86462.jpg|The harbor and freight railway station of Baziaș (2 January 1908) |File:Báziás MAV állomás - station and goods shed. Austro hungarian times (10755380654).jpg|Baziaș train station (Austro-Hungarian times)
References
- (31 May 2023). "Populația rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021". [[National Institute of Statistics (Romania).
- {{in lang. ro [http://www.banaterra.eu/romana/lacase/manastiri/bazias/manastiri_ortodoxe_sarbesti.htm Baziaș] at Enciclopedia Banatului
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