Comloșu Mare

Comloșu Mare (German: Großkomlosch; Hungarian: Nagykomlós; Serbian: Велики Комлуш, romanized: Veliki Komluš) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania.

The current form, Comloșu Mic, is retaken after 1918 from the Hungarian toponym Kiskomlós, originally used by the Austro-Hungarian administration.

The toponym Constanța was retaken between 1909 and 1921, after which in 1930, it was given the official name Lunga (which means 'long' in Romanian) because the village stretches for a length of 4 km (2.5 mi).

[6] Comloșu Mare is located in the plain area of Mureș, having some depressions left by the routes of Galatea and Soltur valleys that have dried up.

[7] The climate receives Mediterranean influences from the south, having a temperate character (the average annual temperature is 10.5 °C), with warm summers, not too cold winters, quite early springs and sometimes very long autumns.

The most common and harmful to crops weeds are Cirsium arvense (field thistle), Rubus fruticosus (blackberry), Centaurea cyanus (cornflower), Papaver spp.

[7] In terms of fauna, this area is suitable for susliks, hamsters, steppe polecats, hares and, among the bird species, larks, quails, partridges, pheasants, starlings and rollers.

Following Bey Bali's campaign in 1529, several localities, including Comloșu Mare, were destroyed by the Ottoman troops.

[4] After the victory in Zenta in 1697 of Prince Eugene of Savoy over the Ottoman army, several families of Serbian shepherds settled here, so that the 1717 census recorded 20 dwellings in the village of Comleusch, in the district of Timișoara.

Between 1734 and 1740, several Oltenian families arrived in the village from Craiova, Slatina and Polovragi, who took refuge here to escape the Turkish incursions from Oltenia.

With the help of the Romanians from Oltenia, the Austrian administrators rebuilt the roads and the canalization and drainage systems of the swamps both in the commune and in the neighboring localities.

Thus, in 1782, they brought here several families of Lutheran Slovaks from Békés County, who did not stay long and left in 1788 for Stamora.

In 1889 she called the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul to Comloșu Mare, for whom she had a monastery built with rooms for a girls' boarding school and an educational wing.

[18] Comloșanu is another local publication written and edited by a group of young volunteers; it appears since 2001 with a quarterly frequency.

San Marco Mansion in Comloșu Mare
The Orthodox church in Comloșu Mare, built in 1796