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GEOGRAPHIC AND

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Timiș County is located in the western part of the country, on the border
with Serbia and Hungary and is the largest county in Romania, with an
area of 8,697 km2, representing 3.6% of the total area of the country. the county has a strategic position
Timiș County is part of the Danube - Criș - Mureș - Tisa Euroregion in the territory - near the
(DKMT), together with Arad, Caraș-Severin and Hunedoara counties and western border
Csongrád, Békésy, Bács-Kiskun counties (Hungary) and the Autonomous

Province of Vojvodina (Serbia).
The continuity of life on these lands is attested since ancient times, Timiș
County belonging to the Dacian State (2nd century BC) and later, to the
Roman Empire (2nd-3rd century AD). The historical region of Banat, of
which Timiș County is a part, experienced an early feudalization
phenomenon, in the 11th century, there was a Romanian Voivodeship
ruled by Glad, with its capital at Morisena (today's Cenad).

Two centuries later, appears the record of the existence of the "Castrum the county benefits from cross border
s
Timi siensis" fortress – Timișoara. cooperation supported by
At the same time, in 1526, following the Battle of Mohacs,the Hungarian Hungary and Serbia
kingdom was divided and Banat and Transylvania became a principality
under Turkish suzerainty, since 1541. 1718 also marked the transition from
Turkish to Austrian/Hapsburg administration.

After the First World War and the unification with the Kingdom of
Romania (1918), a prosperous period followed in which the first higher
education institutions were established and the number of cultural
institutions increased. But this positive development is brutally interrupted
by the Second World War. Timiș county was reestablished in 1968, in the Timiș county is a part of the
structure and on the territory that it still occupies. DKMT* and IPA** Euroregion

The contemporary history was marked by Timișoara in December 1989
Padeș Peak -
when the people of Timișoara, unable to bear the oppressions and mountains 1.384 m Poiana Ruscă mountains
deprivations of the communist regime, lit the spark of revolution in contact hills
Romania. Timișoara thus becomes a symbol of human courage and depressions
sacrifice, receiving the title of "Martyr town of Romania”

COLOMEEA

DEBRECEN plains 75 m
Banat Plain

BUDAPEST
SUCEAVA

ARAD
the county has the largest
TIMIȘOARA area in the country- 8,697 Km
TIMIȘOARA
* Danube-Criș-Mureș-Tisa Euroregion
** IPA Romania-Serbia cross-border cooperation
REȘIȚA
programme with Mehedinți, Caraș-Severin and Timiș
BELGRADE counties, Borski, Branicevski, Juzno Banatski, Srednje
11 Banatski, Severno Banatski