Abstract
The available sources are not in full agreement concerning the circumstances under which the Czech-speaking villages in the southern Romanian Banat were established. According to archival records of the imperial war ministry in Vienna, the first two settlements came into existence in the early I820s in response to the request of one Georg Magyarly to be allowed to bring in laborers from Bohemia for his extensive lumbering enterprise. Of these two villages, founded in the hills east of the present Moldova Noua, only one remains today-Sf. Elena. The second wave of migration of Bohemian families to the southern Banat began several years later with the encouragement of the administration of the Banat Military Frontier. Some of the migrants were settled in the hills northeast of Moldova, establishing the village of Weitzenried, known today as Girnic. Others were taken further northeast toward Lapu§nicel, near which
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