a town of the Austrian empire, in the Banat Military Frontier, stands on the Temeş near its junction with the Danube, 8 miles E.N.E. of Belgrade. It contains a Roman Catholic and a Greek church, and two schools. Many of the houses are well built, and inhabited by Germans and Greek merchants. Manufactures of beet-root sugar and of silk are carried on; and there is an active trade in corn, timber, and cattle. Pop. (1851), exclusive of the military, 11,043.