Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
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inhabitants of which 173 were Romanian Greek Catholics, 6 Jewish and 2 Hungarians. In 1867 the village had 213 souls and already had a cantor at the school which functioned from 1856 and who was in gharge of the 15 children. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were recorded 218 Greek Catholics and a total of 44 school children. According to the Şematism from 1930 there lived 274 Greek Catholics. In 2011 the village had 180 inhabitants of which 149 Orthodox, 15 Romano Catholics and 6 Greek Catholics. The Orthodox Church the St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel From a monography of the school we find that the villagers bought even before 1848 a wooden church from Unimăt, which brought it on wheels. Later, the church was destroyed in a fire. In 1882 the villagers build the present church from stone dedicated to the archangels Michael and Gabriel, also building a school made of clay, in which was living the cantor George Puşcaş. The current iconostasis of the church comes from the old church from Tăşnad. Along the time, the church from Valea Morii received from various benefactors, books necessary for the church service. So is kept an Octoih printed at Blaj in 1760 and that belonged to the parish of Tăşnad in which it appears an inscription that mentions the administrator from Tăşnad who served also in Valea Morii. It should be noted that for a certain period of time the church belonged to the parish of Silvas and so, on some of the books that come from here are meet marginal notes about Valea Morii. Raţiu The smallest locality of Tăşnad is the village Raţiu mentioned by the documents in 1488 (Rath - Rach) and 1490 (Racz). But the settlement could be dated earlier because a diploma from April 17, 1387 reminds about the village of Cean and at its border Raka village, which might be the locality from today. 4 In the early twentieth century the village is populated by Ukrainians came from Kalina, a mountain village of the Teacevo district. Descendants of the first Ukrainians said they have bought land in the area from an owner named loan Raţiu, to cultivate and to build houses on it. The first families arrived in 1919 were Vecleniţ, Fiţai and Mecleş, then Mateleşca, Cereuca, Ţubara, Miculeac, Gaidoş, Kuţin, Custra and Bilanici priest. A third wave of Ukrainians came in 1920 among them were
