- When the Austrians set foot in the Banat region, they found a sparsely populated and swampy, inaccessible terrain due to the frequent floods of the Danube, Tisa, Tamis, and Begej river
- That is why the new authorities decided to colonize the region with Catholic families from Western Europe
- Banat’s first and most famous administrator was Count Claudius Florimund de Mercy (1718-1733), who began draining the swamps, regulating the Banat rivers, building roads, introducing new plant crops, and colonizing the population
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