Jimbolia

Jimbolia (ʒimˈboli.a; Zsombolya; Hatzfeld; Žombolj; Banat Bulgarian: Džimbolj) is a town in Timiș County, Romania. Jimbolia is located in the west of Timiș County, from Timișoara, with which it is connected by the county road 59A and the Kikinda–Jimbolia–Timișoara railway. It lies in the Banat Plain, at the contact between the Timiș Plain and the Mureș Plain. An alignment of villages marks the boundary between the two relief units: Checea–Cărpiniș–Satchinez. The average altitude of the town is . It is located at the intersection of some roads that connect Romania and Serbia, being also a rail and road border point at the frontier between the two countries. Jimbolia's climate is characterized by average temperatures of 10.7 °C and average rainfall of 570 mm per year. The vegetation consists of steppe meadows largely replaced by agricultural crops. The soils are very fertile and belong to the category of chernozems. The ancient history of the town begins to be documented in 1332–1333, when a papal census of the lands of Banat for the establishment of taxes (tithe) takes place. In these papal registers, the name Chumbul appears. From the researches of Hungarian historian Samu Borovszky, it appears that originally it was a Cumano-Vlach locality, a fact proved by the existence of a Romanian parish. This Chumbul is also mentioned in Hungarian documents from 1489, which speak of the existence of the communes of Chumbul Mare ("Great Chumbul"), Chumbul Mic ("Little Chumbul") and Chumbul Intern ("Inner Chumbul"), most likely owned by the Csomboly family. The last document from this period, recorded by historian Nicolae Ilieșiu, shows that in 1520 there was a certain Mihai of Chumbul, a close man of the king. After this appearance in documents from the beginning of the Middle Ages, nothing is said about this locality in documents from the Turkish rule of Banat. The historical thread is resumed after the conquest of Banat by the Austrians, but for a period it does not appear to be inhabited.