Villages

The commune is composed of four villages: Breştea, Denta, Roviniţa Mare and Roviniţa Mică.

Breştea (Banat Bulgarian: Brešćа) was founded in 1842 by around 110 families of Roman Catholic Banat Bulgarians

Banat Bulgarians

The Banat Bulgarians are a distinct Bulgarian minority group which settled in the 18th century in the region of the Banat, which was then ruled by the Habsburgs and after World War I was divided between Romania, Serbia, and Hungary...

 from Dudeştii Vechi

Dudestii Vechi

Dudeştii Vechi is a commune in Timiş County, Romania...

 (Stár Bišnov).

In the 1880s, a part of the Bulgarian population returned to Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 to found the village of Bardarski Geran

Bardarski Geran

Bardarski Geran is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Byala Slatina municipality, Vratsa Province. It is among the several villages founded by Banat Bulgarians returning from the Banat after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878, and is thus predominantly Roman Catholic...

. In 1869, 1,191 Bulgarians lived in the village, and in 1880 their number was 1,087. In the following years, the population was distributed as follows:

Census		Ethnic distribution
Year	Population	Banat Bulgarians Banat Bulgarians The Banat Bulgarians are a distinct Bulgarian minority group which settled in the 18th century in the region of the Banat, which was then ruled by the Habsburgs and after World War I was divided between Romania, Serbia, and Hungary...	Romanians Romanians The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....	Hungarians	Germans Germans The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....	Serbs Serbs The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...	Roma	Others
1890	1,174	1,087	27	20	29	14	-	-
1910	1,002	889	20	53	26	14	-	-
1930	863	804	6	17	15	9	2	10
1956	847	815	25	7	-	-	-	-

The total population in 1941 was 914. In 1930, 93.2% of the population was Bulgarian, and in 1956, 96.2%.