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Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the history of the city of Reșița between 3 July 1771, when the first furnace became operational, and the year 2021, when Reșița University became part of Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, highlighting the major moments in the industrial and political history of the Banat Highlands: the Revolution of 1848–1849, the purchase of the local mills by the Steg, which integrated them in the larger European family of the heavy industry, the period of economic liberalism after 1918, the communist period and, finally, the post-communist period. The drastic reduction in industrial activity after 1990 was one of the greatest blows suffered by the region. The last decade of the communist period also saw the massive emigration of local Germans, followed into exile by many Romanians. However, the most important feature of this industrial city was the cohabitation by several ethnic groups, which shaped a lifestyle and a civil society with a vivid cultural life, carried out in the framework of book clubs, musical and canto associations, chamber orchestras, and also within the sports and leisure movement

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