Editing Moldova Nouă (section)

==Moldova Veche==
In Moldova Veche village, evidence of human habitation dating to the transition between the [[Neolithic]] and the [[Bronze Age]] has been found. Additionally, there exist traces of an unfortified [[Dacia]]n settlement, similar to several others in the area. 

A Roman ''[[castrum|fort]]'' located in the village supervised mining and navigation on the Danube, located in [[Roman Dacia]]. The harbour and border buildings partly lie on the ruins of the former fort with the rest below the Danube. The site was seen by the historian Leonard Bohm in the summer of 1879 when the river was low and a thorough examination of the ruins could be made. Moldova Noua was an important Roman mining centre for iron, copper, silver and gold.<ref>Touristic route no. 4: The Romans’ Roads (I)   https://banatul-montan.ro/en/the-romans-roads-i/</ref>

Vestiges from the Dark Ages and the Early Middle Ages have been found; during the 10th and 11th centuries, the area was controlled by [[Glad (duke)|Glad]] and later [[Ajtony|Ahtum]].<ref name="ist">{{in lang|ro}} [http://www.moldovanoua.com/prezentare/ Short history] at the Moldova Nouă Town Hall site</ref> [[Serbs]] have been living there since their replacement of the Gepids in the 5th century. <ref>{{cite book |last1=Georgiev |first1=Pavel |title=The Abodriti-Praedenecenti between the Tisza and the Danube in the 9th Century |year=2014 |publisher=Archaeolingua |isbn=978-963-9911-55-0 |pages=107-120}}</ref>

In 1552, when the Banat fell under [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule, Moldova Veche became the capital of a [[sanjak]] within the [[Temeşvar Eyalet]].<ref name="ist"/> In 1566, at the end of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]]'s reign, coins of gold (''altâni'') and silver (''aspri'') were minted there.<ref>Octavian Iliescu, [http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/DigitalPublications/iliescu2002.pdf ''The History of Coins in Romania (ca. 1500 BC – 2000 AD)''], p. 48. Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2002</ref> A document of 1588 records the place under the name ''Mudava''; this is the earliest written mention. The Slavicizied Germanic-origin toponym is still used by locals. [[Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu]] and the majority of Romanian philologists and historians claim that the name comes from the term of Germanic origin mulde (i.e., "hollow", "quarry" or "drainage").<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Maximean |first1=Doina |title=A new theory on the etymology of the name of "Moldova" |journal=Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on History and Archaeology |year=2014 |volume=6 |pages=2-7}}</ref> In 1718, the area came under the [[Habsburg monarchy]]'s control.<ref name="ist"/>

The village was absorbed into Moldova Nouă in 1956. It is the site of [[Port of Moldova Veche|a Danube port]].<ref>Hinnerk Dreppenstedt, ''Flusskreuzfahrten Donau'', p. 304. Berlin: Trescher Verlag 2017. {{ISBN|978-389794-373-5}}</ref> There is a [[Baptist Union of Romania|Baptist]] church; the community was established in 1927, its first church built in 1967 and the present structure in 2001.<ref>{{in lang|ro}} [http://www.harulmoldovaveche.ro/?page_id=220 History] at the Grace Church site</ref> Adherents are both Romanian and Serbian, with services conducted in Romanian.<ref>Djurić-Milovanović, p. 128</ref>