Veliki Rit, Banat Explained

Veliki Rit (Serbian: 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 long and up to 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 area of Veliki Rit was "apparently established" as a reserve of zoological and limnological importance.^[4]

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Veliki Rit, Serbia . www.mindat.org . 27 November 2024.
2. Marić . Miroslav . Modelling obsidian trade routes during late Neolithic in the south-east Banat region of Vrsac using GIS . Starinar . 2015 . 65 . 37–52 . 10.2298/STA1565037M . Veliki Rit (Big Marsh or Alibunar depression), the most prominent geomorphological feature in the region, aside from the Vrac mountains.
3. Book: Marić . Miroslav . Bulatović . Jelena . Marković . Nemanja . Pantović . Ilana . Relatively Absolute : Relative and Absolute Chronologies in the Neolithic of Southeast Europe . 1 January 2023 . Balkanološki institut SANU . 978-86-7179-122-9 . 99 . https://books.google.com/books?id=ucQdEQAAQBAJ&dq=%22veliki+Rit%22+pannonian&pg=PA99 . en . 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.
4. Book: Carp . Erik . Directory of Wetlands of International Importance in the Western Palearctic . 1980 . IUCN . 978-2-88032-300-4 . 495 . https://books.google.com/books?id=RNmtBYWb0w0C&dq=%22veliki+Rit%22+pannonian&pg=PA495 . en . Yugoslavia.