Glogonj

Glogonj - Glogoni - Glogau - Glogon - Galagonyás (Torontál)

According to local history:
The origin of the settlement’s name is in connection with the bush plant, with spine arms, white flowers and small red berry’s – GLOG (Hawthorn)

In old times this plant covered most parts of today’s settlement. Today You can find it only on a few places, near the roads.
On an old topographic map Glogonj village is the first time named in 1586, like a village which belongs to Pancevo sandzak /Turkish word - means something like canton/.
The same name also appeared on the Land-registry between 1600 &1606.
General Mercy between 1723 &1725 accomplished topographic measurements of the Banat. On that new map Glogonj is marked as a desolated settlement named GLOKANSNA.
The first colonist’s where Germans, they came to Glogonj in 1765, immediately after that, the Romanians arrived.
Mass colonizations took a place a few years later –
German’s arrived in 1774, and Romanians in 1781.
The oldest discovered items indicate that there possibly was a village in the bronze age. Some items discovered were - 3 bronze bracelets, medal, a part of bronze armor, clay receptacle with green drawing, and 3 yellow dots on it.
Items which appeared to be from the Roman period were also discovered, they were a metal bracelets /emperor Aurelian/, a few clay receptacles ornaments which were characteristic for that period.
All these items were discovered around the area today that is a pump station, on a place called "Umka", on the right side of the road to Pancevo.
They were found at a depth of about 2 meters, during the building of the pump station, they also discovered a complete shelf with clay dishes.

There are two narrations:

- During the works around the building of the culture club, they discovered two stone chest’s.
One of them was thrown in the well, which is filled up later. The other chest disappeared.
The chest’s like those were characteristic for Roman higher officer’s.

-On the north of the village, near the former stable, a discovery of two skeleton’s with ornament’s and weapon’s dated from the time of the Hun’s breakthrough on those territories (X – XII century).