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THE EUROPEAN UNION

Peregu Mare is a field locality with many minorities. It is compound of Peregu Mare village and Peregu Mic village. Peregu Mare village is also known with the name: Nemet Pereg. For the first time Peregu Mare was mentioned in 1241 as “magna villa Pereg”. The locality was then destroyed by the ottomans. After some time the locality was mentioned in the documents with its name Pereg. The first time when those two villages Peregu Mare and Peregu Mic were mentioned was in 1782 as a result of colonizing some Hungarian families, 134 of Hungarian Calvinist families in Peregu Mic. Peregu Mare was also mentioned as a field area in 1841.Between 1852 and 1853 in Peregu Mare were colonized slovaks and Czechs and in the year 1863 were colonized even germans from Austria and Boemia. During the census from 1880 in Peregu Mare village were mentioned 186 of houses and 1275 inhabitants( 476 hungarians, 328 germans, 145 slovaks, with greek- catholic religion, 260 czechs with protestant religion and 5 jews). During the period between the two world wars the locality reached to a high level of civilization. Every minority had its own house of culture. During the communism period in Peregu Mare there were two farms with animals and two farms wich were cultivating vegetables. Those farms were suppling many jobs for 3900 of inhabitants from Peregu Mare and Peregu Mic.

 Nowadays the locality has few people, because the rate of birth is negative. In 2004 in the locality 100 of hoses are empty and the inhabitants most of them are very old.At the last census in Peregu Mare were living only 900 inhabitants( 299 romanians, 38 hungarians, 23 gipsies, 78 germans, 65 ucrainiens, 329 slovaks and 68 czechs).

 The locality has a town hall, a library, a house of culture, a romanian primary school, three churches( a roman catholic church, a greek catholic church and a protestant church) and it also has an ortodox chapel. In locality there is only one grave yard, but it is divided for every community. In the grave yard there is a monument dedicated to the germans heroes who died in the war.

 The most important event in the locality is the Kirckwei in the 22^nd of August when the locality is visited by the germans who left Romania.

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