Dumbrăvița, Timiș


Dumbrăvița is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Dumbrăvița. At the 2011 census, 77.9% of inhabitants were Romanians, 14.6% Hungarians and 1.2% Germans.
It was founded in 1892 by Hungarian settlers from Szentes. It is bordered to the north by the communes of Giarmata and Sânandrei, to the east by Ghiroda commune, and to the south and west by Timișoara.
As result of the development of the city, many people from Timișoara have built homes in Dumbrăvița, which has the tendency of becoming a neighborhood of Timișoara. Meanwhile, between the 2002 and the 2011 census, the population grew by 168%, from 2693 to 7241 residents.