Caras-Severin

Caras-Severin is a county of Romania on the border with Serbia. The majority of its territory lies within the ancient place of Banat, with some northeastern villages taken into consideration part of Transylvania. The county seat is Resita. The Caras-Severin county is part of the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisza Euroregion. In 1718 the county turned into part of the Habsburg Monarchy, part of the province of Banat. In 1771 the county seat, Reschitz have become a contemporary business middle beneath Austrian rule. The region acquired massive attention because of its mining industry. In 1855, the entire Banat location,

with its components of mineral deposits and timber, became transferred from the Austrian Treasury to a joint Austrian-French mining and railroad organisation named StEG. StEG constructed the Oravița-Baziaș line, Romania's oldest railroad music. After World War I, StEG, Banat and maximum Austro-Hungarian property had been taken over by a employer named UDR. During the remaining years of World War II, when Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany, a partisan organization, led by way of Ștefan Plavaț, became lively within the mountainous place of the county.