Community: Bănia
Bănia, the locality with the highest reputation among the Romanian Almaj villages, is located in the southern part of Almaj depression. Bănia commune includes Bănia and Gîrbovat villages, toting up a surface of 134.416 ha, and thus taking over first place among the Almaj villages, having a territory wholly included between two rivers: Nera in the north-west and Valea Mare (Berzasca) in the south-east.
The Bănia commune landscape has undergone numerous changes in the course of time, the morphological and morphostructural shapes that exist nowadays bearing the result of a long-term activity of endogenous and exogenous factors.
History
The first school in Bănia is attested in the year 1783; in that year, Iancu Mihailovici was teacher, and shortly after, in 1789, Ion Dimitrievici.
Until after 1918 the school worked with a single classroom. The villagers wanted a better school for their children, and so, in 1926 a new school started to be built only through the effort o
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Local resources
The main local resources of the community are represented by:
Forest exploitation; here, the Romanian state started the forest exploitation little time before World War II when on Bănia territory the first private Forest Circuit in the country existed, having a surface of 8,500ha forest land and 3,200 ha of pastures.
Agriculture;
Animal breedin
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Traditions
The archaeological evidence show that on Bănia village territory activity has existed since ancient times. The holey Neolitic axe, the ceramics fragments discovered prove the existence of a prehistoric population in this area.
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