Reference Type:  Journal Article
Author: Stepanov, Ljubomir
Year: 2011
Title: Sârbii din Chizdia Coşarii – Срби у Киздији Кошари– The Serbs in Chizdia Coşarii
Translated Title: [A kizdiai szerbek]
Journal: Temišvarski zbornik
Volume: 6
Pages: 23-39
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Serbian, history, ethnography, monography
Abstract: (RO) The Serbs have settled in the Eastern Banat from Timişoara towards Lugoj in the Middle Ages. The most important settlement took place in 1481 under the command of Prince Pavle. According to folk tradition, the Serbs settled in the so-called Banatska Crna Gora (Banat Montenegro), in the region of Lipova. One of the villages in which the Serbian ethnical element survived for several centuries was Chizdia, the object of our research. The purpose of this micro-monograph was to collect all the relevant facts about the Serbian presence in this area, as it represents the most Eastern point of Serbian penetration. The presence of Serbs has been confirmed in the XVI century, as they were active participants in the riot lead by Jovan Nenad, in the uprising of Dózsa György, byt also in the Serbian-Romanian uprising in Banat in 1594–1595. Jovan Nenad commenced his uprising somewhere in the vicinity of Lipova, while the village Chizdia is only about
fifteen kilometres away. The birthplace of The Black Tsar still remains unknown, but the Nenad family existed in Chizdia until a century ago. Maybe... The village belonged to the fortress of Şoimoş which was a property of Serbian feudal families from Radič Božič to Petar Petrović. Serbs have managed to survive here also during the Turkish rule in Banat, even if the landowners changed frequently. When the Austrians conquered Banat and transformed it into an Imperial estate, it was bought by Petar Tekelija of Kevermes, who became the owner of Chizdia in 1818. He was succeeded by his son, also Petar, who failed to retain ownership over the estate and gave it to the nobleman Sina, as compensation for an unsettled debt. Thus Sina received his baron title with the attribute “of hodoş and Chizdia”. A crucial moment for the local Serbs occurred in 1832, when they joined the Greek Catholic Church, along with the Romanians, thus marking a unique event in Serbian history in this area. At that time, however, their national identity was already fading out. Today only the toponyms, oikonyms, names and surnames, the patterns in their folk costumes and the stories about their ethnic origin witness about the former presence of Serbs in this place
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