Oroszlámos

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Today’s Oroszlámos was founded in the 18^th century. In 1753, south of the old Oroszlámos, Count Perlas, the provincial governor of Timisoara, founded a new village called Új-Oroszlámos. Its first inhabitants moved here from Magyarmajdán (which was called Oroszlámos until the end of the 17^th century), then in 1785 Count Ignácz Batthyány, Bishop of Transylvania, founded four tobacco-producing Hungarian villages on the outskirts of Oroszlámos and settled them with people from Szeged and those of living along the river Maros. When the villages were populated, it turned out that far more people applied than they could accommodate, so the others were placed in Új-Oroszlámos. The settlement was regulated in 1805 because the houses had been built sparsely.