Bălu, Daniela: Certeze. Chid Cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
The history of the village
1.58% other ethnicities. Religious structure is 73.7% Orthodox, Roman Catholics 14.58%, Jehovah's witnesses 5.07% and Greek Catholics 1.22%. Л^ртогу of the village Even if Certeze is a village in the area that there were not performed any archaeological researches, we express the opinion that, due to the territorial classification in the geographical Depression of Oaş and geographical Basin of Tisa Superioare, the items highlighted by archaeologists to prehistoric eras, can also be attributed to this village. According the fact that the area was and still is rich in nonferrous mineral deposits (systematically exploited in the nineteenth century), we consider true the hypothesis that Certeze was part of the villages located in the geographical depression of Oaş, where the exploitation of these resources was proven by archaeological discoveries. The oldest settlements in the county of Satu Mare are those from Oaş (Bixad, Boineşti, Călineşti, Prilog, Remetea), from the Paleolithic era, resisting also in bronze and iron ages. It is well known the fact that Oaş was not part of the Roman area Dacia, being „a natural fortress of free Dacia" and this far origin is also accepted nowadays with pride by the Romanians in Certeze. The village is mentioned in documents that talk about „salt road" (Via South or Semitem Soout), which started in 1355 in Ocna Sugatag, Maramureş, passing through the mountain in Oaş, by Certeze, being both: the economic link with Maramureş and also the preservation of Romanian ethos in the jurisdiction of the rulers from Maramureş in Oaş Certeze is mentioned in the documents in 1493, as a Romanian village of Oaş, which belong to the family of Móric from Medieş (the toponym of Vyfalw, Wyfalw). According to the researcher Ion Muşlea, „Certeze was a large and ancient village, known since the time of Huniazi". Through the succession process it became the property of Báthoris (until 1520), then Lónyai and Wesselényi, in the eighteenth century it belonged to the counts Károlyi family, Teleki, Kornis barons Vecsey, Huszár, and after that it appeared several owners in the village, first of all for forests. The farm Monnie belonged also to Certeze, in the center was built a beautiful castle built by Lucian Monnier. Until the nineteenth century itformed a single village together with Huta Certeze (Lajosvölgyi). In the twentieth century it became known because of highly and capable mobile workforce, even for the hardest jobs, and after 1990 to starta huge process of emigration of inhabitants in Europe, especially in France, most of the emigrants from Oaş area arrived in France, about 60% coming from Certeze. A villager of 3 has been or is in France, especially in Paris. The emigration is the socio-historical nowadays phenomenon of a huge complexity. The territorial mobility was part of the nomadic spirit of Osan, due to the traditional occupation, grazing, butit became, after 1990, more presently, reported to the economical condition and social prestige. Since 1990 the work territory has expanded unexpected, proportionately increasing the number of the departed people. This conduct was initially generated by financial and
