Sannicolau Mare

Sister cities

• Burgkirchen an der Alz
• Makó
• Kazincbarcika

History

The oldest inhabitants of this land would have been the Agathyrsi, named after Agathyrsus, a son of Heracles. Herodotus wrote that in 513 BC next to the Maris (Mureș) river lived the Agathyrsi who were of Thracian origin, engaging in cultivation of the land and even winemaking. It got its name from the Mureș and from the Dacian tribe Morasian, which had its residence here before the arrival of the Romans. Morisena would have covered the entire territory from Cenad to Sânnicolau Mare, being located between the Mureș and Aranca rivers – which at that time was navigable. Even if Morisena did not lie on the hearth of the town, there are enough scientific and military reasons to believe that in this place there was a castrum of Legio XIII Gemina erected as an outpost for the defense of Morisena. Between 106 and 274 AD Morisena becomes a town under the Roman Empire. In 274 AD, emperor Aurelian withdrew his legions south of the Danube, leaving Trajan's Dacia in the hands of the Goths. Between 380 and 396 the Huns, invading Dacia under Attila, drove the Goths south of the Danube, occupying Dacia, which they named Hunia, Morisena becoming the capital of the Hun Empire, Attila's residence. Morisena was located on a very large area, including Cenad and Sânnicolau Mare, which appear together on the map of Europe in the 5th century. The natives were spared and even respected by the Huns, living with them in harmony. Attila in his battles in the Balkan Peninsula brings Roman slaves and settles them in Dacia, strengthening the Roman element. Byzantine rhetorician Priscus, sent by emperor Theodosius II, described Attila as having royal authority, dressed simply and very religiously, and learning beautiful things from the Dacians, Hun, Latin and Roman being spoken at his court. From…

Geography

Sânnicolau Mare is the westernmost town of Romania and Timiș County, being also the third largest town in the county after Timișoara and Lugoj. It is a border town, having a border with Hungary, on the unregularized course of the Mureș River. It covers an area of , 1.55% of the area of Timiș County. It borders Saravale to the east, Tomnatic to the south, Teremia Mare to the southwest, Dudeștii Vechi to the west. and Cenad to the northwest. The town numbers 112 streets with a length of , arranged perpendicularly to each other. The length of the town is , and the width is . * Bujak * Centru * Capul Satului * Comuna Germană * Kindărești * Primăverii * Satul Nou * Sighet * Slatina The town lies in the low plain of the Aranca Canal. It is generally flat, only slightly fragmented, as a result of water erosion during the time when the Mureș River was able to overflow and uneven deposition of alluvial material. The territory is located in the Mureș Plain, which is a typical form of fluvio-lacustrine subsidence, with shallow valleys with abandoned riverbeds resulting from the regularization of watercourses and drainage, with an altitude between . The northern part is located in the former meadow of Mureș, and the southern part in the former meadow of the old Aranca stream, today regularized and canalized. On the territory of the town there are some elevations with southwest–northeast direction, which continue towards Saravale commune. The most important of these hunci (elevations) is located on the former border line between the town and the former commune of Sânnicolau German (now incorporated into the town), south of the Dudeștii Vechi–Tomnatic road, and is called Hunca Farchii. The most important natural resource is geothermal water, which is used in greenhouses, in…

Most-observed species

• Roman Snail

  Helix pomatia Linnaeus, 1758 · Gastropoda
  146
• European helicid land snail

  Caucasotachea vindobonensis (C.Pfeiffer, 1828) · Gastropoda
  99
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  68
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  62
• False-acacia

  Robinia pseudoacacia L. · Magnoliopsida
  46
• Eurasian Marsh-Harrier

  Circus aeruginosus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  44
• Johnson-grass

  Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. · Liliopsida
  41
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  41

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2025-10-21
  5 km SW of Cserkeszőlő, Hungary
• M 4 — 2025-07-05
  9 km NNE of Pálmonostora, Hungary
• M 3.5 — 2023-08-20
  6 km SE of Szarvas, Hungary
• M 3.4 — 2023-08-19
  10 km E of Szarvas, Hungary
• M 3.7 — 2023-08-19
  10 km ESE of Szarvas, Hungary
• M 3.6 — 2023-08-19
  10 km ESE of Szarvas, Hungary