Bara

History

The first recorded mention of Bara dates from 1367. The name Bara is of Slavic origin and, in medieval documents, is associated with the description "terra acquosa", meaning a marshy land. In 1440 Bara is taken from the prefect of Timiș by King Vladislav I and given to the Șoimoș Fortress. By 1477 it was the property of the prefect of Pozsony, Miklós Bánffy. Under the Turks it was destroyed and re-established in 1690–1700. In 1879 Bara was bought by Pavel Teodorescu and Constantin Florea. The village was Romanian and remained mostly Romanian during the Austro-Hungarian rule. All the villages in the commune were massively depopulated after World War II. Spata, for instance, became a ghost village in 1997 with the death of the last native. However, the settlement was repopulated by several families of Transylvanian shepherds.

Most-observed species

• False-acacia

  Robinia pseudoacacia L. · Magnoliopsida
  85
• Ragweed

  Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. · Magnoliopsida
  44
• Johnson-grass

  Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. · Liliopsida
  31
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  26
• Annual Fleabane

  Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. · Magnoliopsida
  22
• Canadian Fleabane

  Erigeron canadensis L. · Magnoliopsida
  22
• Jerusalem Artichoke

  Helianthus tuberosus L. · Magnoliopsida
  21
• Desert false indigo, False indigo-bush, Bastard indigobush

  Amorpha fruticosa L. · Magnoliopsida
  18

Most recent

• M 4.3 — 2024-08-10
  5 km NNE of Ohaba Lungă, Romania
• M 4.7 — 2023-06-06
  6 km SW of Frumu?eni, Romania
• M 4.1 — 2023-05-22
  2 km S of Fântânele, Romania
• M 2.9 — 2016-03-18
  2 km SSE of Carani, Romania
• M 4.1 — 2014-10-31
  1 km NNE of Teregova, Romania
• M 4.6 — 2013-09-08
  1 km WSW of General Berthelot, Romania