Veliki Rit, Banat

Veliki Rit (Serbian Cyrillic: Велики Рит) is an area near the Begej river in central-eastern Banat, Serbia.^[1][2]

It is also known as the Alibunar Depression, from the town of Alibunar, and covers an area 30 km (19 mi) long and up to 11 km (6.8 mi) wide. It was formed in the epeirogenic movement, and was a marshland area until drainage works which began in the 18th century and culminated in the 1977 completion of the Danube-Tisa-Danube canal.^[3]

A 1980 Directory of Wetlands of International Importance in the Western Palearctic reported that in 1974 a 500 ha (1.9 sq mi) area of Veliki Rit was "apparently established" as a reserve of zoological and limnological importance.^[4]

References

1. "Veliki Rit, Serbia". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
2. Marić, Miroslav (2015). "Modelling obsidian trade routes during late Neolithic in the south-east Banat region of Vrsac using GIS". Starinar (65): 37–52. doi:10.2298/STA1565037M. Veliki Rit (Big Marsh or Alibunar depression), the most prominent geomorphological feature in the region, aside from the Vrac mountains
3. Marić, Miroslav; Bulatović, Jelena; Marković, Nemanja; Pantović, Ilana (1 January 2023). "Late Neolithic chronology in the contact zone between the south edge of the Carpathian mountains and the Pannonian plain - a case study of the Vrsac region". Relatively Absolute : Relative and Absolute Chronologies in the Neolithic of Southeast Europe. Balkanološki institut SANU. p. 99. ISBN 978-86-7179-122-9.
4. Carp, Erik (1980). "Yugoslavia". Directory of Wetlands of International Importance in the Western Palearctic. IUCN. p. 495. ISBN 978-2-88032-300-4.

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