Bogda

Bogda (German: Neuhof; Hungarian: Rigósfürdő, until 1899 Bogda-Rigós) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Altringen, Bogda, Buzad, Charlottenburg, Comeat, and Sintar.

Geography

Bogda is located near the border with Arad County in the historic Banat region, about 50 km (31 mi) northeast of Timișoara.

History

The area was first mentioned as Bagd in a 1436 deed. Part of the Habsburg Banat of Temeswar upon the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz, the settlement appeared as Bogdan in a 1723 chart. In 1770/71 Banat Swabian colonists from Germany settled here in a place called Neuhoff. By the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, the area fell to the Kingdom of Romania.

Under its Hungarian name Bogdarigós, it was the site of a well-known health spa including a chapel and a way of the cross, which existed until the 1948 expropriations in the Socialist Republic of Romania. It later became a Young Pioneer camp and after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 developed to a resort town.

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Marijash

Marijaš (Albanian: Marijash; Serbian: Маријаш, Marijaš ) or Bogdaš (Богдаш) Albanian: Bogdash is a mountain in Kosovo in the Prokletije range. At 2,533 m (8,310 ft) high, it is the highest peak of the Bogićevica area and one of the highest peaks in Prokletije in Kosovo. The mountain is located near the Montenegrin border.

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Coordinates: 42°36′51″N 20°06′06″E / 42.614167°N 20.101667°E / 42.614167; 20.101667