Timis, the most Western and the biggest county of Romania, with a temperate climate, is covered two third of its surface by a fertile plain and crossed by the Timis, Bega and Barzava Rivers. To East the plain mounts near by hills covered by vineyards and orchards to the Poiana Ruscai Mountains (1300-1400 m above sea level). In this county, according to the last census in 1992, a number of 700,033 inhabitants live of which over 60 per cent in towns. There are two municipalities Timisoara and Lugoj) and five towns (Buzias, Deta, Jimbolia, Sanicolau Mare and Faget). Here there are Romanians (80.1 percent), Magyars (9 percent), Germans (3.8 percent), Serbians (2.4 percent) etc. The capital city, Timisoara (Little Vienna), the fourth big city of Romania - is an important historic, economic, financial, cultural and scientific town and real gate of Romania ...

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