The Timiş or Tamiš (Romanian: Timiş; Serbian: Тамиш or Tamiš; German: Temesch; Hungarian: Temes) is a 359 km long river rising in the Semenic Mountains, southern Carpathian Mountains, Caraş-Severin County, Romania. It flows through the Banat region and flows into the Danube near Pančevo, in northern Serbia.
In antiquity, the river was known as Tibiscus and Tibisis.
The drainage area covers 13,085 km² (Romania 8,085 km², Serbia 5,000 km²). With th...
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The Timiş or Tamiš (Romanian: Timiş; Serbian: Тамиш or Tamiš; German: Temesch; Hungarian: Temes) is a 359 km long river rising in the Semenic Mountains, southern Carpathian Mountains, Caraş-Severin County, Romania. It flows through the Banat region and flows into the Danube near Pančevo, in northern Serbia.
In antiquity, the river was known as Tibiscus and Tibisis.
The drainage area covers 13,085 km² (Romania 8,085 km², Serbia 5,000 km²). With the Danube, it belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin. The river flows through Romania for 241 km, and 118 km through Serbia.
The river starts at the junction of headwaters Brebu, Grădiştea and Semenic in Lake Trei Ape.
After entering Banat, the river becomes slow and meandering.
In its lower course, the river is regulated, and for the last 53 km it is navigable. The most important port is the heavily industrialized Pančevo.
After Banat, floods occur in rainy years. Especially devastating were the floods of 2005, when the villages Boka and Jaša...
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