Temes County

County Temes ( Timis county also German, Hungarian Vármegye Temes, Latin comitatus Temesiensis ) was a county ( regional administrative unit ) in the Banat region in the historic Kingdom of Hungary. It was in the north of modern Serbia and the south of present-day Romania.

Geography

It stretched along the Maros and Tisza. In the west it bordered upon the county Torontal, on the north by the Arad County, on the east by the county Krassó - Szörény and on the south by Serbia. It included about 7,000 km ² and in 1881 had 396 045 inhabitants (mostly Romanians and Serbs ). It is almost perfectly flat, is on the northern border of the Maros ( German Mures, today Romanian Mureş ), in the interior of the Berzava (now Romanian Bârzava, the Timis, the Krassó (now Romanian Caras ) and the Nera, on the southern border of the Danube irrigated. It has many swamps, a hot, partially unhealthy climate, but very fertile soil. grains and fruits were collected in abundance. cattle, silkworms and bees flourished. County was by the railway lines Arad - Bazias and Szeged - orsova cut. seat of the same Temesvár is (today Timişoara Romanian ). Excellent milling industry was (259 mills with an annual production of 1,644,000 quintals of flour).

History

County Temes began in the 11th century. After the occupation by the Ottomans in the area came in the 16th century to Eyalet Timisoara, after the reconquest of the Banat in 1718 the area was part of the Banat Timişoara. In 1778 it became part of the Kingdom of Hungary where the county has been restored. Between 1849-1860 it was the Serbian Voivodship and the Temeser Banat attached and then re-established as a county.

After the end of the First World War in 1918 was in the field, the Banat Republic. However, this was divided in the north ( the greater part ) of the Treaty of Trianon between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the south and Romania. During the part of Yugoslavia is incorporated in Vojvodina, the majority of the former county is now in Romanian Timiş county, a 10 km wide strip along the river Mureş lies in the Romanian Arad county.

County subdivision

The county was in the early 20th century from the following districts chair (after the name of the administrative headquarters named):

Besides the places Vršac, Bela Crkva and Kovin that are in today's Serbia, there are all the other places mentioned in today's Romania.