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Reşiţa
Facts
County	Caraş-Severin
Status	County capital
Mayor	Spătaru Liviu since 2004
Area	km²
Population - at 2002 - Density	83.985 inh/km²
Geographical coordinates	21:53 N / 45:17 E
Web	City Website

Reşiţa (Hungarian Resicabánya, German Reschitz) is a city in western Romania and capital of Caraş-Severin County, in Banat.

Former Austrian Crownland. Founded in the times of the Great Austrian Empire, this city was of great importance to the Austrian Crown due to the industrialisation in the area and the strategic geographical positioning.

An important iron and steel center, Reşiţa is the site of blast furnaces, iron foundries, and plants producing electrical appliances, chemicals, machinery, and metals. A mining centre in Roman times, the present-day city was founded in the 18th century when a foundry was established here. Population (2004) 83,985.

The name of Reşiţa has its origin in Slavic "Rechitza", which is derived from "reka", river.

Also, the city is a centre point to leisure locations all around. Near Reşiţa, not so far away, you can find the well known Ski Resort - Semenic, as well as The Gozna lake (also known as Crivaia, The Secu lake and the Trei Ape lake. Also worth mentioning - Wolfsberg (also known as Garana), Weidental (also known as Brebu), and Franzdorf aAlso known as Valiug)

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