Timis County
Timisoara benefited from the introduction of the latest achievements
of science of the epoch. Telegraph was introduced in 1854, railway
in 1856, gas lighting in 1857, horse streetcar in 1859 and telephone
in 1881. The building of the power plant in 1884 made of Timisoara
the first town in Europe where street lighting and then, in 1899,
the powered streetcar were introduced.
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Geographical
Outline
Timis county lies in the western part of the country bordering on
Yugoslavia and Hungary to the West and Arad, Hunedoara and Caras-Severin
to the North, East and South. The geographical location of the county
is highly advantageous, at the crossroads of important European routes
where the cultures and civilisation of the West interfere with that
of the East. Two European capitals lie in the vicinity: that of Yugoslavia,
Belgrade, 170 km from Timisoara, and that of Hungary, Budapest, 300
km far away. Vienna is at a distance equal to that between Timisoara
and Bucharest: 550 km. Timis county, Romania’s
largest county, with an area of 8,697 sqkm, benefiting from a temperate
climate, has two thirds of its territory covered by plains crossed
by the rivers Timis, Bega and Barzava. To the East the plain goes
up gently among hills full of vineyards and orchards to the moderate
heights of the Poiana Ruscai Mountains (1,300-1,400 m). The county
is inhabited by over 690,000 people, over 60 per cent of them living
in the urban area represented by two municipalities – Timisoara and
Lugoj and five towns – Buzias, Deta, Jimbolia, Sannicolau Mare and
Faget. By nationality 80.1 per cent are Romanians, 9 per cent – Hungarians,
3.8 per cent - Germans, 2.4 per cent – Serbs etc. The county seat
– Timisoara, the fourth largest town of the country – is an important
historical, economic, financial, cultural and scientific centre, Romania’s
true gate to Western Europe.
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Touristic
Information
Timis, the
most Western and the biggest county of Romania, with a temperate
climate, is covered two third of its surface by a fertile plain
and crossed by the Timis, Bega and Barzava Rivers. To East the
plain mounts near by hills covered by vineyards and orchards
to the Poiana Ruscai Mountains (1300-1400 m above sea level).
In this county, according to the last census in 1992, a number
of 700,033 inhabitants live of which over 60 per cent in towns.
There are two municipalities Timisoara and Lugoj) and five towns
(Buzias, Deta, Jimbolia, Sanicolau Mare and Faget). Here there
are Romanians (80.1 percent), Magyars (9 percent), Germans (3.8
percent), Serbians (2.4 percent) etc. The capital city, Timisoara
(Little Vienna), the fourth big city of Romania - is an important
historic, economic, financial, cultural and scientific town
and real gate of Romania to West Europe. The tumultuous multimillenary
history of this zone left to the posterity important monuments
and vestiges of a great national and European value: the Huniades
Castle, the House of Eugeniu de Savoya, the Dicasterial Palace,
the bulwark of the old Timisoara Fortress, the church of the
Minorite Monastery, the Inn of Mail, the "Sf. Nicolae"
Tower, the Sephardic Synagogue (in Lugoj), the Fortress of Ciacova,
the Royal Castle in Banloc, the Tapae Monument (a little Emperor
Trajan's Column) etc. The Dendrologic Park in Bazos, the Satchinez
Omitologic Reservation, the Pischia, Binis, Hodos-Remetea Mica,
Cheveresu Mare century-old forests with a rich fauna, curing
mineral waters in Buzias, Calacea or Ivanda (compared by specialists
with the ones of Evian and Karlovy Vary Spas), the man-made
lake situated in the Surduc area, the Romanesti Cave etc. are
points of tourist attraction in the Timis county. Also here
there are a lot of important vestiges of the collision of the
Romanian culture, civilization and history with the European
ones: Nikolaus Lenau house-museum, the memorial houses of Brediceanu,
Vidu, Grozavescu, Traian Vuia in Lugoj, the memorial houses
of musician Bela Bartok and painter Stefan Jager, the Catholic
Dome in Timisoara where there are invaluable things of the patrimony
of the world civilization. The traditional hospitality of peoples,
their proud ("just Banat is in the van" says an old
adage) meet the cuisine of Banat similar to the one of Vienna.
For the lovers of agro-tourism, the wonderful villages situated
in plain, with hospitable peoples and sweet wines of Recas,
Buzias, Teremia as well as the plum and apricot brandy are able
to spend here a week-end or holidays. The ones who visited this
county once will come back.
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Economy
Profile
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