Lugoj

Lugoj is a city in Timiș County in southwestern Romania, in the historical region of Banat. The Timiș River divides it into two halves, the Romanian Lugoj on the right bank and the German Lugoj on the left, the latter founded by settlers brought from Austria, Bohemia, Bavaria and Silesia from 1725. It first appears in written history in 1334 in a papal tithe record and was a castle town by 1379. At the 2021 census it had 35,450 inhabitants, making it the second largest city in the county, and it covers about 98 square kilometres on the lower terrace of the river at an average altitude of 124 metres. The city administers the villages of Măguri and Tapia. It is known as the City of Music for its long choral and church music tradition, and its theatre is named after the tenor Traian Grozăvescu.