Timișoara Fortress
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Timișoara Fortress is a historical fortress in western Romania around which the town of Timișoara was built.
Plan of the Habsburg fortress in 1808
Engraving of 1685, stating that it represents the Ottoman city. In fact, the drawing is based on the (incorrect) assumption that under the Ottomans the Angevin fortress remained the same. The image depicts the area of the castle, seen from north. But the hills are fiction, being beyond the horizon.
Timișoara Fortress in 1602
Ottendorf's veduta, a view from the north side of the fortress. Here: a–h indicate 8 minarets of mosques; i — the tower of Azaps gate (P); k — the Water Gate tower (Q); l — the Rooster Gate tower (O); m — four of them are the towers of the castle, and one is the Water Tower; n — the tower of the Blood Gate (S).
Sânpetru Mare
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Sânpetru Mare is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Igriș and Sânpetru Mare. It also included the village of Saravale until it was split off to form a separate commune
The Serbian Orthodox church in Sânpetru Mare
Front view of Count Pál Szapáry's castle in the 1890s
Sânpetru Mare (Raitzisch St. Peter) and Igriș (Egrisch) on the Josephinische Landesaufnahme of 1769–1772