TIMIS RIVER

Hungarian Temes, Romanian Timisul, Serbo-Croatian Tami river, rising in the Cernei Mountains at the western end of the Southern Carpathians in Romania, and flowing north, west, then south in an arc through Caransebes and Lugoj to enter the Danube River at Pancevo, east of Belgrade (Yugoslavia), after a course of 211 miles (340 km). Its exit from the Carpathians, via the Domanesnea gap, forms part of the important TimisCerna Gap (between the Western and Southern Carpathians) that links the Tisza River plain and the city of Timisoara (north) with the Danubian Plain (south). Beyond the Domanesnea gap the Timis flows in a wide alluvial floodplain. Its major tributary is the Brzava. The Timis is navigable only for small craft.