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Bega Canal

The Bega Canal is a navigable canal in the Banat region of Romania and Serbia, which follows and regulates the course of the Bega river. It was dug from 1728 under the Habsburg governor Claudius Florimund Mercy to drain marshes and link Temeswar, now Timișoara, with the Tisza, and it carried goods to the city for two centuries. It passes through Timișoara and Zrenjanin.

Bega Canal
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Banat of Temeswar

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Bega Canal. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/bega-canal
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