REŞIŢA ÎNAINTE DE REŞIŢA. O ISTORIE A VĂII SUPERIOARE A BÂRZAVEI ÎNAINTE DE 1718
REȘIȚA BEFORE REȘIȚA. A HISTORY OF THE UPPER BÂRZAVA VALLEY BEFORE 1718

Summary/Abstract: Given especially the few documentary sources preserved up today, the medieval and early modern history of Reșița [Reshitza] (before 1718) is very little known. On the present territory of Reshitza and its neighbor villages, the medieval Romanian district of Izvoarele Bârzavei [the Bârzava River Sources] (Borzafö–Magyar) was located and functioned. It is about a Romanian population who led according to their own juridical norms, having the right to directly appeal to king in solving the legal disputes. Izvoarele Bârzavei was the center of that area and to identify it, one have proposed more variants of location. Archaeology had an important contribution to reveal the medieval history of the upper Bârzava River, the diggings from the 70s and 80s, the 20th century in Reshitza leading to find out a medieval complex in the area of Moroasa-Ogășele. It is about a small church and a cemetery of 47 graves, and a fortification covered nowadays by the building of the Athenaeum. Izvoarele Bârzavei, disappeared during the Ottomans attacks, should be localized here. It is likely that during the Turkish times, the settlement changed its location on a safer valley, and the former name into Reșița [Reshitza], a toponym perpetuated up today.

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