Ciacova

Ciacova (German: Tschakowa; Hungarian: Csák, before 1913 Csákova; Serbian: Чаково/Čakovo; Turkish: Çakova) is a town in Timiș County, western Romania, in the Banat region. According to the 2011 census, it had 5,348 inhabitants.

Ciacova is located at 28 km (17 mi) from Timișoara and 30 km (19 mi) from the Serbian border. The town administers four villages: Cebza (Csebze), Macedonia (Macedónia), Obad (Obád) and Petroman (Petromány). When it was declared a town in 2004, Gad and Ghilad villages, which it administered up to that point, were split off to form Ghilad Commune.

Demographics

^{^} Includes 26 Ukrainians. Data were unavailable for 333 inhabitants.

Macedonia

The village of Macedonia had 470 people in 2002.

Natives

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Coordinates: 45°30′N 21°08′E / 45.500°N 21.133°E / 45.500; 21.133

Republic

A republic (from Latin: res publica) is a sovereign state or country which is organised with a form of government in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law. In modern times, the definition of a republic is commonly limited to a government which excludes a monarch. Currently, 147 of the world's 206 sovereign states use the word "republic" as part of their official names; not all of these are republics in the sense of having elected governments, nor do all nations with elected governments use the word "republic" in their names.

Both modern and ancient republics vary widely in their ideology and composition. In the classical and medieval period of Europe, many states were fashioned on the Roman Republic, which referred to the governance of the city of Rome, between it having kings and emperors. The Italian medieval and Renaissance political tradition, today referred to as "civic humanism", is sometimes considered to derive directly from Roman republicans such as Sallust and Tacitus. However, Greek-influenced Roman authors, such as Polybius and Cicero, sometimes also used the term as a translation for the Greek politeia which could mean regime generally, but could also be applied to certain specific types of regime which did not exactly correspond to that of the Roman Republic. Republics were not equated with classical democracies such as Athens, but had a democratic aspect.