Jamu Mare is a commune in Timiş County

Timis County

Timiș , , Banat Bulgarian: ) is a county of western Romania, in the historical region Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is the largest county in Romania in terms of land area....

, Banat

Banat

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, Romania

Romania

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

Mali Žam

Mali Žam is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 279 people .-Name:...

 (Smaller Žam/Jam).

The commune is composed of five villages: Clopodia, Ferendia, Gherman, Jamu Mare and Lăţunaş. The village of Jamu Mare has a population of 1,414, while the whole commune has a population of 3,059 people (as of January 2009).

Transport

Jamu Mare is now a railway terminus, but between 1925 and 1930, trains would pass through it all the way to Vršac

Vršac

Vršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...

 in present-day Serbia. Train services to Gătaia

Gataia

Gătaia is a town in Timiş County, Banat, western Romania. It is located on the Bârzava River at 52 km from Timişoara and 47 km from Reşiţa. It administers five villages: Butin, Percosova, Sculia, Şemlacu Mare and Şemlacu Mic...

 and Buziaş  are now operated by Regiotrans

Regiotrans

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Four county roads run through the commune.

History

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1343, under the name "villa Zamer".

In 1717, the village Scham had 67 houses.
At the end of the 18th century, Hungarian statistician Fényes Elek recorded that the village called Nagy Zsám had a population of 1,562, under the rule of the nobleman Ludovic Karácsony.

In 1786 the German colony Freudenthal was founded, at a distance of 4 km away from the current site of the village of Jamu Mare. During the 50 years following 1809, the Romanian population was expelled from the commune, so as to make room for the German families coming from Fibiş, Iecea and Grabaţ. In 1893 the German colony was included in the village of Jamu Mare.

From 1919 to 1924 the commune belonged to the Serbo-Croat Kingdom.

Demographics

In 2002, in the commune there were 2,894 Romanians

Romanians

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, 240 Hungarians, 63 Germans

Germans

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, 73 Roma people and 54 people from other ethnic groups.

In 2009, the stable population count of the commune was 3095 persons.