Can anyone help me learn more about this? Nothing pops up for Barcia online Tags:austria 5 comments Are you sure they didn’t come from Asturias and the immigration mixed it up with Austria? A lot of people left Asturias at the time due to war Found a barcia at a historic map. Barcia in romania. Also named barcsa. Probably this part of romania was part of austrian empire in 1905. try a search for “donauschwaben” It’s seems to be in [Transylvania](https://mapcarta.com/13716362which) which was part of Hungary at that time. A small village called Criseni nowadays in [Atid community](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atid) seams to be in the same place Transylvania has a history of German settlements, look up “Siebenbürgen” and “Siebenbürgen Sachsen/Transylvania Saxons) Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcea, it is pronounced „ia“ though. So probably they just wrote down what they heard. That time that place belonged to Hungary, and that was a part of the Austrian Hungarian Monarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
Are you sure they didn’t come from Asturias and the immigration mixed it up with Austria? A lot of people left Asturias at the time due to war
Found a barcia at a historic map. Barcia in romania. Also named barcsa. Probably this part of romania was part of austrian empire in 1905.
It’s seems to be in [Transylvania](https://mapcarta.com/13716362which) which was part of Hungary at that time. A small village called Criseni nowadays in [Atid community](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atid) seams to be in the same place Transylvania has a history of German settlements, look up “Siebenbürgen” and “Siebenbürgen Sachsen/Transylvania Saxons)
Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcea, it is pronounced „ia“ though. So probably they just wrote down what they heard. That time that place belonged to Hungary, and that was a part of the Austrian Hungarian Monarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary
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Are you sure they didn’t come from Asturias and the immigration mixed it up with Austria? A lot of people left Asturias at the time due to war
Found a barcia at a historic map. Barcia in romania. Also named barcsa. Probably this part of romania was part of austrian empire in 1905.
try a search for “donauschwaben”
It’s seems to be in [Transylvania](https://mapcarta.com/13716362which) which was part of Hungary at that time.
A small village called Criseni nowadays in [Atid community](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atid) seams to be in the same place
Transylvania has a history of German settlements, look up “Siebenbürgen” and “Siebenbürgen Sachsen/Transylvania Saxons)
Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcea, it is pronounced „ia“ though. So probably they just wrote down what they heard. That time that place belonged to Hungary, and that was a part of the Austrian Hungarian Monarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary