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 Turnu village is a village with many minorities.The village belongs to Pecica town.Among the romanian inhabitants there are also hungarians and serbians.At the begining in Turnu there were only romanians and serbians.In 1753 the locality was brought by Marczibanyi Lorincz and he built a very beautiful castle and a roman-catolic church.The hungarians came in Turnu after this date.At the census from 1828 in Turnu were mentioned 362 houses and 2650 inhabitants(650 catholics,2000orthodoxes).The orthodox church patronized by Saint Apostle Luca was built in 1812.After the separation between roman church and serbian church ,after 1860, the romans made up the serbians for the loss and the serbians built another church in the locality patronized by Saint Mary.In the XIX/th century the locality was made market town with its own stamp.In 1908 the locality belonged to Csanad region among other localities like Sederhat,Variasul Mare,Variasul Mic.The castle was ruined in 1938, it was kept only a building wehre the employees used to live.In 1968 the locality rebecame village and lost all its privileges.
Nowadays in the locality there are three churches, a roman catolich church(with painted glass windows,an 1868 organ and a vault)an orthodox church for romanians and an orthodox church for serbians,two grave yards, a romanian primary school,a post office, an office where Pecica`s town hall is represented,a health unit and a vet unit.
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