Zlatica
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The Zlatica (Serbian: Zlatica or Златица, Romanian: Aranca, Hungarian: Aranka) is a 117 km long river in the Banat region of Romania and Serbia, left tributary of the Tisa river.
The Aranca originates in Romania, in the northern part of Banat, southwest of the city of Arad. It flows to the west, next to the large villages of Sînpetru Mare, Saravale, the town of Sînnicolau Mare, Beşenove Veche and Vălcan, where it leaves Romania after the course of 76 km and enters Serbia as the Zlatica for the remaining 41 km.
The river turns southwest, receives from the right the Kikinda canal which connects it to the Canal Danube-Tisa-Danube to the south, flows next to the village of Padej and empties into the Tisa river at the town of Ada. Near the village of Banatski Monoštor the Zlatica receives from the right its main tributary, another Romanian-Serbian river, the Begej.
The Zlatica belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin, itself draining 1,470 km² (790 km² in Romania, 680 km² in Serbia). In the lower part it has been channeled, so its navigable for the last 10 km and also very important for the irrigation of the arable land in its valley. Near the village of Jazovo, waters of the Zlatica are used for the Ostojićevo fish pond, and a natural Celeruša bog is also located there.
In Romanian, Serbian and Hungarian, the river's name means the gold river.
[edit] References
- Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
- Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6
