Project financed by
THE EUROPEAN UNION

Pecica is a field locality that become town in April 2004.In Pecica are living together romanians, hungarians, germans,slovaks,serbians and gipsies.In the past there were even jews,they were the owners of some mills and were also very good merchants.

For the first time the locality was mentioned in 1329.

The locality is  made of many nucleus of houses: Bodrogu vechi village, Pecica maghiara, Pecica romaneasca, Cocota, Turnu village, Sederhat village.

After 1690 in the locality existed with the imperial approval a serbian regiment of frontier guards.In 1735 Pero Segedinac, the captain of the frontier guards fought against the imperialists.The colonize of hungarians took place in 1753,after the departure of the serbians in Ukraina as a result of the fact that the regiment of frontier guards was abolished.The slovaks established in Pecica at the begining of the XIX th century by secondary migration.

The oldest names and families in the locality were:Teretean,Cheveresan, Hidisan,Crucean,Dragos.

The town has a local town hall, a cultural house for the cultural activities, a healt unit, a romanian secondary scool and a primary school were children learn in hungarian langage, a romano-catholic church, a romanian ortodox church, built in 1932 in neo-brancovenesc style, a serbian orthodox church from the XVIIIth century, two neo-protestant churches.In town there also is a catholic grave yard.The monument of the russian soldier was part of it dismontled.In the hungarian area was put on artesian well from the year 1890.

From 1816/1819 in Pecica we can find many associations: ironsmiths, wheel -makers,weovers, shoe-makers,sheepskin coat/makers and from 1830 appears the association of tailors.Nowadays in town was saved only a forge,two workshops of wattle and a workshop of furniture.

The locality is famous for a folk traditional holiday dedicated to bread on the 22 th of August and another holiday when people cerebrate the saints that patronize the catholic church on the 6 th of June.

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