Moldova Nouă is a town in southwestern Romania

Romania

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 in Caraş-Severin County

Caras-Severin County

Caraș-Severin is a county of Romania, in the historical region of Banat and few villages in Transylvania, with the county seat at Reșița.-Demographics:The county is part of the Danube-Kris-Mureș-Tisza euroregion....

 (the historical region of Banat

Banat

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), in an area known as Clisura Dunării

Clisura Dunarii

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. It is located on the shores of the river Danube

Danube

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. In 2002, Moldova Nouă had a population of 13,917. The town administers three villages: Măceşti (Macsevics; Мачевић), Moldova Veche (Ómoldova) and Moldoviţa (Kiskárolyfalva).

At the 2002 census, 80.6% of inhabitants were Romanians

Romanians

The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....

, 13.9% Serbs

Serbs

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, 2% Roma, 1.8% Hungarians and 1% Czechs. 88.4% were Romanian Orthodox, 4.5% Baptist

Baptist Union of Romania

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, 4% Roman Catholic and 2% Pentecostal

Pentecostal Union of Romania

The Pentecostal Union of Romania is Romania's fourth-largest religious body and one of its eighteen officially recognised religious denominations. At the 2002 census, 330,486 Romanians declared themselves to be Pentecostals; ethnically, they were 85.2% Romanians, 10.6% Roma, 1.9% Ukrainians, 1.8%...

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