Bega River, Romania and Serbia
The Bega in Romania and Serbia
The Bega (Romanian also Bega, Bega Hungarian, Serbian Begej / Бегеј ), often Begakanal (Romanian Canalul Bega, Bega Hungarian - csatorna ) called, is a 254 kilometers long Romanian Serbian river or canal. It rises in the Banat Mountains and flows in Title in the Serbian province of Vojvodina in the Tisza, which in turn drains into the Danube. The lake is formed by the confluence of the rivers Bega Bega Luncanilor and Poieni. Largest city in the course of Bega is Timişoara. Peculiarity of the Bega is their low gradient of only 18 centimeters per kilometer; it was channeled in many parts and is mostly navigable. The catchment area of the Bega is about 2878 square kilometers.
Neighboring places in Romania:
- Margina
- Făget
- RACHITA
- Mănăştiur
- Leucuşeşti
- Bethausen
- Cutina.RTM
- Bodo
- Balint
- Chizătău
- Ictar - Budinţi
- Topolovatu Mic
- Recaş
- Remetea Mare
- Ghiroda
- Timişoara
- Utvin
- Sanmihaiu Român
- Uivar
- Otelec
Riparian sites in Serbia:
- Hetin
- Srpski Itebej
- Novi Itebej
- Begejci
- Žitište
- Banatski Dvor
- Most Yankov
- Klek
- Zrenjanin
- Ečka
- Lukino Selo
- Stajićevo
- Perlez
- Title
History
The construction of the Bega Canal was regarded as an outstanding achievement of his time and was under the leadership of Count Claudius Mercy Flori mouth ( 1666-1734 ). Before channeling the Bega offered in a wild, uncontrolled run the vast marshland in the west rich food. The derivation of the marshes appeared Mercy offered a strategic, economic, and last but not least the need for sanitary reasons. Under the technical direction of military professionals 1727-1733 the canal was built. The resulting drying up of the marshes could arise as new, fertile farmland, the Banat Heath.
In 1754 the canal was improved starting with the average channel of Ittebe. 1759 under General neglected by Engelhofen Begakanal was expanded under the leadership of the Dutch engineer Max Fremaut and connected to the Timis by two locks. At high tide, the waters of the Danube had dammed the Iron Gate. This backwater let the water table in the Banat level rise, and suffer the resident in Mittelbanat become settlers under the resulting malaria. So also the Ilantscher and Alibunarer swamps south of Timişoara were drained in this project. Between 1833 and 1837 the old bed of the Bega through a channel of Bobda to Yankov must was shortened.
1945 were held extensive repair work. In 1958, Romania maritime traffic with neighboring States on the Bega canal. 1967, the channel for commercial shipping has been closed. The canal was sludged and expanded over two years and since 2011 in parts of navigable again. A completion date for the work on the handling of freight transport is currently unknown. The total investment for the measures is 22 million euros. After completion of the work Timişoara will be so connected to the port on the Pan-European Corridor VII and with other ports of the North Sea to the Black Sea.
In Timisoara 14 bridges connect the right, northern bank to the left bank of the Bega.
The Bega in Zrenjanin
The Bega in Timişoara, Romania
Located in the district Iosefin inland port of Timişoara (1906 )