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Timișoara (UK: / ˌ t ɪ m ɪ ˈ ʃ w ɑːr ə /, [10] US: / ˌ t iː m iː-/, [11] Romanian: [t i m i ˈ ʃ o̯a r a] ⓘ; German: Temeswar [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːɐ̯] ⓘ, also Temeschwar or Temeschburg; [12] Hungarian: Temesvár [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːr] ⓘ; Serbian: Темишвар, romanized: Temišvar [těmiʃʋaːr]; see other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main ...
The Bega Canal is the first navigable canal built in Romania. Originally built for the sanitation of floodplains around Timișoara, it was later arranged for navigation. [60]: 13–14 Timișoara is the only Romanian city with public transport by water, made with vaporetto-like boats along the nine stations on the Bega Canal. [65]
The Timișoara Times was founded as Temeswarer Nachrichten on April 18, 1771, by German journalist Mathias Joseph Heimerl. It was the first newspaper on the territory of today's Romania and the first newspaper in German outside Germany [ 1 ] The newspaper changed its name to The Timișoara Times in 1992.
Timișoara polarizes over 80% of the county's turnover and over 30% of the region's. [3] The city's economic profile, largely based on manufacturing, has encouraged the expansion of urban mass toward the larger metropolitan area. If between 1992–2012 Timișoara expanded by 13%, the metropolitan area expanded by about 18%.
The building was designed by László Székely , the chief architect of Timișoara, and constructed between 1908 and 1909 by contractor Josef Kremmer Sr. [1] The Ștefania Palace was originally constructed as a "report house," a term referring to a building with rental apartments.
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Buildings and land belonging to the former 93rd Air Base, totaling 240 ha, were transferred to Timișoara Airport in 2006. [20] The air base also operated the MiG-23 Flogger, which was retired in early 2002. Over 30 MiG-23s are in storage at Timișoara Airport. Nowadays, the military section of the airport is an annex of the 71st Air Base.
In 1781 it was known as the City Hall of the Royal Free City of Timișoara (German: Rathaus der Königlichen Freien Stadt Temeswar), and the following year, 1782, it was rebuilt by the builder Josef Aigner; [6] the facade is restored in Renaissance style and the emblem is changed because Timișoara changes its status, becoming a royal free city ...