Little Bačka Canal

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The Little Backa Canal (Serbian Мали бачки канал / Mali Backi channel, formerly Franz- Josephs- channel (Hungarian: Ferenc József öntöző - csatorna ) or Alexander Channel ) is an inland waterway channel in the western Backa Lowlands ( region of Vojvodina, Serbia). He is part of the Danube -Tisa -Danube Canal system and connects the Great Backa Canal and the Danube.

Course

The Little Backa Canal begins southeast of Sombor in Mali Stapar or west Sivac where he tees from the Grand Backa Canal to the southeast. After about 66 km length of the channel reaches the city of Novi Sad, where the channel from the north-west from the left leads coming into the Danube. The canal shortens the shipping lane of Bezdan ( on the border of Hungary / Croatia / Serbia) to Novi Sad 75 km (instead of 170 km on the Danube ). In Novi Sad the Small Backa Canal is known as the Danube -Tisa -Danube Canal ( DTD channel ).

The small channel has 4 locks and is average 2m deep. In contrast to the Great Backa Canal of Small canal is clearly straight and has few bends. The Little Backa Canal has 4 channel branches, including a connector for Grand Canal.

History

The canal was built by the Kingdom of Hungary for the purpose of inland navigation of small vessels and irrigation from 1871 to 1875 and was until 1918 the name of the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria - Hungary, after the name of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. He was completely in Bács - Bodrog.

Pictures

Small Backa Canal in Novi Sad

• Inland navigation channel
• Channel in Serbia
• Danube river system
• Novi Sad
• Vojvodina
• Built in the 1870s
• Channel in Europe