Lugoj

Lugoj stands on the Timiș River at the edge of the Banat hills. Its medieval fortress protected a town that shared its name with the frontier banate of Lugoj and Caransebeș. Rebuilt in stone in the fifteenth century, the stronghold resisted Ottoman pressure long after Timișoara had fallen. In 1658 the Transylvanian prince ceded the district to the Ottomans. War returned in 1695, when an Ottoman army defeated imperial troops near Lugoj and General Federico Veterani was killed. Following the Treaty of Karlowitz, the fortress was demolished in 1700.