Type: | commune |
County: | Caraș-Severin |
Population Total: | auto |
Eftimie Murgu | |
Leader Name: | Mihai Otiman[1] |
Leader Party: | PNL |
Term: | 2020 - 2024 |
Area Total: | 99.02 |
Coordinates: | 44.9°N 28°W |
Eftimie Murgu (called Rudăria until 1970, when it was renamed after the revolutionary born there; Hungarian: Ógerlistye) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania, with a population of 1,822 people. It is composed of a single village, Eftimie Murgu.
Of the commune's inhabitants whose ethnicity was recorded at the 2011 census, 99.5% were Romanians. 85.6% were Romanian Orthodox and 14.2% Baptist.
The commune is named after Eftimie Murgu (1805–1870), a philosopher and member of the 1848 revolutionary movements in Wallachia and the Banat.