Veliki Rit ( sr-cyr, Велики Рит) is an area near the
Begej
The Bega or Begej (; ; ; , formerly ''Kistemes''), is a 244 km (152 mile) long river in Romania (169 km; 105 mi.) and Serbia (75 km; 47 mi.). It rises in the Poiana Ruscă Mountains in Romania, part of the Carpathian M ...
river in central-eastern
Banat
Banat ( , ; ; ; ) is a geographical and Historical regions of Central Europe, historical region located in the Pannonian Basin that straddles Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe. It is divided among three countries: the eastern part lie ...
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Serbia
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It is also known as the Alibunar Depression, from the town of
Alibunar
Alibunar (; German language, German: ''Alisbrunn''; ; ) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Alibunar town and Alibunar municipality have a population of 2,694 and 17,139 r ...
, and covers an area long and up to wide. It was formed in the
epeirogenic movement
In geology, epeirogenic movement (from Greek ''epeiros'', land, and ''genesis'', birth) is upheavals or depressions of land exhibiting long wavelengths and little folding apart from broad undulations.
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, 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.
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.
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Geographical regions of Serbia
Geography of Vojvodina
Banat
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