# How did Timișoara grow beyond its fortress?

Choose one of 40 mapped anchors, compare it with the fortress outline and the 300- and 500-Klafter lines, then search its name across the project collection.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/discover-timisoara/

- [The languages of Timișoara, 1869–2021: what its people told the census](https://mariuscomper.uk/limbile-timisoarei/en/): Timișoara, in western Romania, as a street at night, one lit window for every hundred residents. Ask the city its mother tongue, nationality and faith and the same windows answer differently; in 1910 its 6,728 Jews appear only when language is set beside religion. Every census from 1869 to 2021. In Romanian and English.
- [Timișoara, the city kept at a distance by its own fortress: the 500-Klafter circle on today’s map](https://mariuscomper.uk/timisoara/en/): Until 1868 building was forbidden within 500 Klafter (948 m) of the fortifications of Timișoara, in western Romania. The city plan of 1853 and the star-shaped fortress of 1788, laid on today’s streets, show the circle: the suburbs of the time stop at it, the old parks round the centre lie inside it, and Fortress Boulevard still runs along its edge. For any street the page gives its distance from the wall and what was drawn there in 1853.
- [Caransebeș 1788: how many died the night an army fired on itself?](https://mariuscomper.uk/caransebes-1788/en/): On the night of 20–21 September 1788, Emperor Joseph II's army fired on its own ranks on the march to Caransebeș, in the Banat (now western Romania). The night's reports, read one by one: what they attest, what each retelling adds, and why the dead were never counted.
- [The old street names of Timișoara: at least 806 changes of name in a hundred years](https://mariuscomper.uk/numele-strazii-tale-timisoara/en/): Bulevardul Take Ionescu was Magyar utca, then Heroes of Stalingrad, then Leontin Sălăjan. Every recorded name of the 1,345 streets of Timișoara, a city in western Romania, from the Hungarian names of before 1919 to now, searchable by street.
- [December 1989: Twelve Days, from Timișoara to Târgoviște](https://mariuscomper.uk/decembrie-1989/en/): 15 December: the parish vigil in Timișoara; 25 December: the firing squad in the Târgoviște barracks. Twelve days, each with an archival citation. Six death tolls side by side, three episodes in two versions, Romania only.
- [Ten Hours Fifty to Timișoara](https://mariuscomper.uk/noua-ore/en/): All 1,583 Romanian passenger stations coloured by how long the train takes from Bucharest, next to the 1939, 1948 and 1977 timetables and the state of the lines that explains the difference.
- [The first electric city? Timișoara, 12 November 1884](https://mariuscomper.uk/timisoara-1884/en/): 731 incandescent lamps, 59 kilometres of cable and the Brush company of Vienna: the night of 12 November 1884 and the asterisk on “Europe's first electric city”.
- [The only Roman map of Banat strings eleven stations in a row. Not one still goes by its name.](https://mariuscomper.uk/peutingeriana-dacia/en/): The Tabula Peutingeriana, the 1265 copy of the Empire's road map, preserves the only ancient road network of Dacia. Eleven names from the Danube to Sarmizegetusa, taken one by one: none survived untouched.
- [The Bega Canal: why it enters Serbia 5 metres higher than the river Timiș](https://mariuscomper.uk/bega-canalul/en/): Where the two rivers enter Serbia, 17 km apart, the Bega’s water was higher than that of the Timiș on 7,974 of 8,036 days, 2004–2025, usually by 5.0 m. The relief of the Banat plain in western Romania, a section across it, and any town against the canal’s water. In Romanian and English.

## Sources

- [Atlasul Timișoarei · date cartografice și repere](https://mariuscomper.uk/timisoara/)
- [Inventarul stradal al Timișoarei](https://mariuscomper.uk/numele-strazii-tale-timisoara/)
- [OpenStreetMap contributors · geometry of the Bega channel](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)