Cacica

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{{Infobox Romanian subdivision

|type = commune

|county = Suceava

|name = Cacica

|other_name = Kaczyka

|population_total = auto

|map_caption = Location in Suceava County

|image_map = Cacica jud Suceava.png

|image_shield = ROU SV Cacica CoA.png

|image_skyline = Cacica salt mine01.jpg

|image_caption = The salt mine in Cacica (September 2007)

|leader_name = Petru Tudosi{{cite web|url=https://prezenta.roaep.ro/locale27092020/romania-pv-final|title=Results of the 2020 local elections|publisher=Central Electoral Bureau|access-date=9 June 2021|df=dmy-all}}

|leader_party = PNL

|term = 2020–2024

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|elevation = 385

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|area_total = 57

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|website = {{url|https://www.comuna-cacica.ro}}

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Cacica ({{langx|pl|Kaczyka}}, {{langx|de|link=no|Kaczika}}) is a commune in Suceava County, in the historical region of Bukovina, northeastern Romania. The commune is located in the central part of the county, {{cvt|17|km}} from the town of Gura Humorului, {{cvt|34|km}} from the city of Rădăuți, and {{cvt|28|km}} from the county seat, Suceava. At the 2011 census, 74.8% of inhabitants were Romanians, 20.2% Poles, and 4.4% Ukrainians. Its Polish inhabitants are descended from settlers who arrived there at the turn of the 19th century during the Habsburg period.

Administration and local politics

= Commune council =

The commune's current local council has the following political composition, according to the results of the 2020 Romanian local elections:{{Cite web|language=ro|url=https://prezenta.roaep.ro/locale27092020/data/json/sicpv/pv/pv_vs_final.json|format=Json|title=Rezultatele finale ale alegerilor locale din 2020|publisher=Autoritatea Electorală Permanentă|accessdate=2020-11-02}}

class="wikitable"

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! style="background:#ccc" | Party

! style="background:#ccc" | Seats

! style="background:#ccc" colspan="7" | Current Council

| National Liberal Party (PNL)

| style="text-align: right" | 7

| {{party color cell|National Liberal Party (Romania)}}

| Social Democratic Party (PSD)

| style="text-align: right" | 4

| {{party color cell|Social Democratic Party (Romania)}}

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| Union of Poles of Romania (UPR)

| style="text-align: right" | 2

| {{party color cell|Union of Poles of Romania}}

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Villages

The commune is composed of five villages: namely Cacica, Maidan, Pârteștii de Sus (the commune center), Runcu, and Solonețu Nou.

= Solonețu Nou =

File:Nowy Sołoniec (Rumunia), Solonețu Nou 09.jpg

Solonețu Nou ({{langx|pl|Nowy Sołoniec}}) is one of the Polish villages in Suceava County, in the historical region of Bukovina, northeastern Romania. It was established in 1834 by 30 Polish families in the Soloneț river valley.

A Polish school was founded in the village in 1870. 523 people from the village were deported to Poland after 1945 and the school was closed. Some Poles settled in Złotnik, Poland.{{cite book|last=Krasowska|first=Helena|year=2017|title=Górale polscy na Bukowinie karpackiej|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk|page=77}} After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the Polish school was reopened. In 1995 there were 718 inhabitants in the village. The Polish community from Solonețu Nou (together with those of Solca, Pleșa, Racova, and Arbore) has 365 families with 1046 Roman Catholics of Polish ethnicity.

Natives

Valeriu Alaci (1884–1955), Romanian mathematician
Ghervazen Longher (born 1972), Polish-Romanian politician

Gallery

File:Cacica salt mine chapel01.jpg|Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to Saint Barbara, located in the salt mine

File:Rumunia, Kaczyka, kościół rzymskokatolicki DSCF7626.jpg|Roman Catholic Polish basilica in Cacica

File:Biserica romano-catolica din Solonetu Nou11.jpg|Roman Catholic church in Solonețu Nou

File:Biserica greco-catolica din Cacica.jpg|Greek Catholic church in Cacica

File:Biserica Ortodoxa Cacica - panoramio.jpg|Orthodox church in Cacica

File:Cacica - Gradinita de Copii - panoramio.jpg|Cacica kindergarten

File:Cacica - Scoala Generala - panoramio.jpg|Cacica elementary school

File:Panorama Cacica - Biserica Ortodoxa - panoramio.jpg|Panoramic view over Cacica, with the Orthodox church in the background

File:Cacica, Bucovina - panoramio - bajerskip (1).jpg|Panoramic view over Cacica, with the Roman Catholic basilica seen in the background

File:SolonetuNou.jpg|Solonețu Nou ({{langx|pl|Nowy Sołoniec}}) village, with the local Roman Catholic church seen in the background

File:Nowy Sołoniec (Rumunia), Solonețu Nou 03.jpg|Rural landscape from Solonețu Nou (2018)

File:Nowy Sołoniec (Rumunia), Solonețu Nou 06.jpg|Solonețu Nou (2018)

References

{{in lang|ro}} Pr. Mihai Patrașcu, [http://www.ercis.ro/actualitate/viata.asp?id=20040326 Vizită pastorală la Soloneţu Nou] ("A pastoral visit to Solonețu Nou"), on the site of the Roman Catholic Episcopate of Iași. Undated, but [http://www.ercis.ro/actualitate/viata.asp index] places it as December 2005. Accessed 7 Jan 2006.

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20121130011926/http://www.cacica.eu/ Polish Community in Cacica]
[http://www.romaniaphotos.ro/2011/01/salt-mine-from-cacica.html The Salt Mine from Cacica]

{{Coord|47|38|N|25|54|E|display=title|region:RO_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}

Category:Communes in Suceava County

Category:Localities in Southern Bukovina

Category:Mining communities in Romania

Category:Polish communities in Romania