Centrele urbane de comandă din Banat
Urban Centers in Banat

Summary/Abstract: Urban Centeres in Banat. The paper analyzes the urban system and hierarchy of Banat region, comprising three counties of Western Romania: Arad, Timiş and Caraş-Severin. First, a view on the Romanian urban system is given; this perspective is then applied to the analysed region. All the settlements of Banat are grouped in an 11 rank hierarchy: the first four ranks are entirely urban, the next two are mixed (urban and rural), while the ranks 7 to 11 are exclusively rural. Timişoara is the main polarising centre of the region (rank 1); Arad is an important city of more than 100,000 inhabitants (rank 2); Reşiţa is the county seat of Caraş-Severin (rank 3). Former county seats Lugoj and Caransebeş are ranked 4, while the other 17 towns are grouped in the next two ranks, together with important rural centres which may become towns in the near future. Several maps present the areas of influence of each settlement for the first six ranks.

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