Ghiroda Nouă (, also ''Erzsébetpuszta''; ) is a district of

Timișoara Timișoara (, , ; , also or ; ; ; see #Etymology, other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in Western Romania. Located on the Bega (Tisza), Bega River, Timișoara is consider ...

, located in the eastern part of the city, north of the

Bega Canal The Bega Canal or Begej Canal (; ) is a navigation canal of Romania and Serbia. It is the first navigation canal built on the present-day territory of Romania, and serves the city of Timișoara. Its name comes from the Bega river. It crosses the ...

. Originally called Colonia Crișan (; ), it is located on the lands that, around 1750, were the rice fields of Timișoara. It was annexed to the city in 1949.

History

Today's district was established on 23 September 1932 by detaching Crișan, Bogdan, Ștrand-Gyürki, Cardoș, Schmidt-Szegedi, Șarta and Slavek from the commune of Ghiroda to form the rural commune of Ghiroda Nouă, following ''Decision no. 24,768 of 23 September 1932'' of the prefecture of

Timiș-Torontal County Timiș-Torontal was a county () in the Kingdom of Romania. Its capital was Timișoara. The territory of the county had been transferred to Romania in 1920 from the Kingdom of Hungary under the Treaty of Trianon. Geography Timiș-Torontal County ...

. The new locality was part of the central ''

plasă ''Plasă'' (, plural ''plăși'' ) was a territorial division unit of Romania, ranking below county ('' județ'') and above commune. It was headed by a '' Pretor'', appointed by the county Prefect. The institution headed by the Pretor was call ...

'' of the county and formed a notarial constituency with the commune of Ghiroda. In 1936, the localities of Ștrand-Gyürki, Cardoș, Schmidt-Szegedi, Șarta and Slavek separated from Ghiroda Nouă to form the locality of I. G. Duca (today Plopi). At the 1941 census, Ghiroda Nouă had 353 buildings and 1,253 inhabitants. Due to the fact that the ground level is lower in the area, the district was flooded by Behela in 1932 and 1940, with the 1940 floods requiring the evacuation of 300 homes.

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Districts of Timișoara {{Timiș-geo-stub