Șemlacu Mare

Șemlacu Mare lies in the southern Banat, near the low country around Gătaia. The village is recorded from the thirteenth century, earlier than several neighbouring settlements. Its history belongs to a district that passed from the medieval Kingdom of Hungary into the Ottoman sphere and then, after the wars of the early eighteenth century, into the Habsburg Banat. In 1778 Maria Theresa incorporated the Banat into the Kingdom of Hungary, changing the administration of the villages of this plain once more.