Temes

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Temes County
common_name = Temes
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 12th century
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4

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capital = Temesvár
stat_area1 = 7433
stat_pop1 = 500800
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Romania, Serbia
footnotes = Timişoara is the current name of the capital.

Temes (Hungarian: "Temes", Romanian: "Timiş", Serbian: "Tamiš" or "Тамиш") is the name of an administrative county (comitatus) of the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is currently in south-western Romania and northern Serbia (eastern Vojvodina). The capital of the county was Timişoara (Hungarian: Temesvár, Serbian: Temišvar).

Geography

Temes county was located in the Banat region. It shared borders with the Kingdom of Serbia and the Hungarian counties of Torontál, Arad and Krassó-Szörény. The river Danube formed its southern border, and the river Mureş (Hungarian: Maros, Serbian: Moriš) its northern border. The river Timiş flowed through the county. Its area in 1910 was 7,433 km².

History

Temes County was formed in the 11th century. The county was taken by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, and was included into the Ottoman Province of Temeşvar. After the Banat was captured by the Habsburgs in 1718, the area of the county was included into the Banat of Temeswar, a separate Habsburg province. This province was abolished in 1778, and the area of the county was incorporated into Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary.

Between 1849 and 1860 the area of the county was part of Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat, a separate Austrian crown land. Temes County was re-established in the 1860s, when the area was incorporated into the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1918, the county first became part of the newly formed Banat Republic, and then was divided between Romania and the also newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon of 1920. A majority of the county was assigned to Romania, while the south-western third was assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929).

The Yugoslav part of the pre-1918 Temes County (the southern Banat region) is currently part of the Serbian autonomous region of Vojvodina. The Romanian part is now part of Timiş County, except a 10 km wide strip along the Mureş River, which is in the Romanian Arad County.

Demographics

According to the census of 1910, the county had 500,835 inhabitants.

Population by language (1910 census):
*Romanian = 169,030 (33.75%)
*German = 165,883 (33.12%)
*Hungarian = 79,960 (15.97%)
*Serbian = 69,905 (13.96%)
*Slovak = 3,080

ubdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Temes county were:

The towns of Vršac, Bela Crkva, and Kovin are currently in Serbia; the other towns mentioned are currently in Romania.