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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Banat
The Banat region is bordered on the E by Transylvania and Walachia, on the W by the Tisza River, on the...
The Transylvanian Alps separate it in the NW from Transylvania and the Banat; the Danube separates it from Serbia in the west, Bulgaria in the south, and N Dobruja in the east; in the northeast it adjoins Moldavia.
Mutiny in the Balkans: Croat Volksdeutsche, the Waffen-SS and motherhood *.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Banat   (1326 words)

  
 "History of German Settlements in Southern Hungary" by Sue Clarkson
The Banat Province was one of the primary areas of settlement.
The Banat was considered a crown territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1718 to 1778 and was administered from Vienna during that period.
The colonization of the Banat was entrusted to Claudius Florimund, Count of Mercy, general under Prince Eugene of Savoy.
www.feefhs.org /banat/bhistory.html   (3773 words)

  
  Banat - LoveToKnow 1911
BANAT (Hungarian Bdnsdg), a district in the south-east of Hungary, consisting of the counties of Torontal, Temes and Krasso-Szoreny.
There were in Hungary several banats, which disappeared during the Turkish wars, as the banat of Dalmatia, of Slavonia, of Bosnia and of Croatia.
The Banat was conquered by the Turks in 1552, and remained a Turkish sanjak (province) till 1716, when Prince Eugene of Savoy liberated it from the Turkish yoke.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Banat   (532 words)

  
 Banat
Banat was liberated from the Turks and annexed by Austria in 1718.
Banat Ukrainians were Magyarized to some extent and then Romanianized.
In the 1950s and 1960s the Banat Ukrainians had their own schools, which were closed down in the 1970s.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/B/A/Banat.htm   (174 words)

  
 Man from Banat
Banat is bounded by the Danube river on the South, the Marosch River on the North, the Thiesse river on the West and by the Carpathian foothills on the East.
Banat has a fairly uniform distribution of small villages with a few strategically located cities that were the site of ancient forts.
In the case of Banat this meant an increasing influence and friction with the Hungarian kingdom.
www.waynerhudson.com /banat.htm   (1899 words)

  
 Banat — FactMonster.com
The Banat region is bordered on the E by Transylvania and Walachia, on the W by the Tisza River, on the N by the Mureşul River, and on the S by the Danube.
In 1233, King Andrew II of Hungary established the Banat of Severin, a frontier province whose defense was entrusted to the Knights Hospitalers.
Banat - Banat A territory under a ban (lord), from the Illyrican word bojan, a lord.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0805997.html   (328 words)

  
 The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications
Excavated by Anne Porter and Thomas McClellan from 1988 until its inundation by the Tishreen dam in 1999, Banat is one of the most significant Early Bronze centers to emerge in northern Syro-Mesopotamia during the past decade.
The Banat Publication Project, under the direction of Anne Porter, intends three volumes of reports detailing respectively the mortuary remains, the public sector, and the industrial and residential quarters.
Tell Banat is located on the left bank of the Euphrates River, Syria (36"26' N 38"17' E), and is the center of a settlement grouping that includes extramural cemeteries and two satellite sites.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Mesopotamia/Banat_04   (415 words)

  
 Banaters Around the World
The Banat Province was one of the primary areas of settlement.
The Banat was considered a crown territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1718 to 1778 and was administered from Vienna during that period.
The colonization of the Banat was entrusted to Claudius Florimund, Count of Mercy, general under Prince Eugene of Savoy.
www.banaters.com /banat/clarkson.asp?category=history   (3828 words)

  
 .: Ban(i) & Banat. History and Etymology :.
Ban and Banat in the 1911 Encyclopedia [edited text]
Banat's Very Short Historical Chronology for the First Millennium A.D. Banat's Historical Chronology for the Last Millennium
Why did the Banaters Immigrate to USA ?
www.banat.ro   (34 words)

  
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The region was a county of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1918 and 1922, and in 1929 it was incorporated into the Danube Banovina (Danubian Banat), a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The Banat is a part of the Pannonian plain bordered by the River Danube to the south, the River Tisza (Theiss, Tissa, Tisa) to the west, the River Mureş to the north, and the Southern Carpathian mountains to the east.
The Romanian Banat is mountainous in the south and southeast, while in the north, west and south-west it is flat and in some places marshy.
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 Banat, region in southeastern Europe, extending over areas of present-day western Romania, northeastern Serbia (part of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Banat was an Ottoman province from 1552 to 1718, when it became part of Habsburg Austria.
By the Treaty of Trianon (1920) the eastern portion of the Banat, about two-thirds of the territory, became Romanian; the western portion became part of the Yugoslavian state (the newly formed Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes); and a tiny portion around Szeged in the northwest remained Hungarian.
The region was known as the Banat of Temesvár and in earlier times as the Banat of Severin.
members.tripod.com /mihairadu/Banat.html   (240 words)

  
 Electronic Banat
Banat is an ethnically mixed historic region of eastern Europe; it is bounded by Transylvania and Walachia in the east, by the Tisza River in
Under Austrian military rule, the region was organized as the Temeser Banat (or Banat of Temesvár).
The name banat has its origin in a Persian word meaning lord, or master, and was introduced into Europe by the Avars; it came to mean a frontier province or a district under military governorship.
www.banatul.com /info   (230 words)

  
 DVHH | Banat Region
Banat is a region in south-eastern Europe, located between the rivers Danube in the south, Theiss/Tisza/Tisa in the west, Marosch/Maros/Mures in the north, and foothills of the Carpathian mountains in the east.
NEW ~ The Colonization of the Banat Following its Turkish Occupation - With particular emphasis on emigration from Lorraine and Luxemburg (Southern Belgian province of Luxemburg)
Ethnic Structure of the population of the Banat for the period 1910-1991
www.dvhh.org /banat/index.htm   (688 words)

  
 The West Wing: Abu el Banat - TV.com
We had a guide, a Bedouin man, who called me "Abu el Banat." Whenever we'd meet another Bedouin, he'd introduce me as "Abu el Banat." The Bedouin would laugh and laugh and then offer me a cup of tea.
And I'd go and pay them for the tea, and they wouldn't let me. "Abu el Banat" means "father of daughters." They thought the tea was the least they could do.
Tell the world what you think of Abu el Banat, write a review for this episode.
www.tv.com /the-west-wing/abu-el-banat/episode/280550/summary.html   (888 words)

  
 The Banat Village Museum-short history
The idea of founding an ethno museum in the open air was formulated for the first time by loachim Miloia, ex-executive of the Banat Museum between 1928-1940, a famous cultural personality of Banat (painter, art historian, church restorer).
With its cultural patrimony detained and presented to the visiting audience, the Banat Vilage Museum is an open page in the Banat history, an evidence of the traditional folk civilization of the Romanians and other nationalities of this region making up a harmonious interethnic dialogue.
Without being obliged to travel in the Banat villages, you can see, in a couple of hours, everything that is particulary characteristic of the traditional civilization and culture in the western part of Romania, in the Banat village.
www.msbtm.ro /history.htm   (205 words)

  
 Top soccer team looking for home
Banat Soccer Club's top team recently completed its first regular season in the National Premier Soccer League with quite a night and a mediocre record.
Banat started the season with a 5-1 record before injuries to its top players spoiled its season.
Banat is run like a business, and as a player you love that.
www.azcentral.com /sports/preps/articles/0707nw-banat0707Z1-CR.html   (562 words)

  
 Columbia Encyclopedia- Banat - AOL Research & Learn
In the aftermath of the Turkish victory over the Serbs at Kosovo (1389) and the Turkish occupation of Serbia (1459), many Serbs emigrated to the Banat, which itself became a Turkish sanjak (province) around 1552.
By the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718), the Banat was made an Austrian military frontier zone known as the Banat of Temesvar.
Although the Allies in World War I had promised through a secret agreement to give the Banat to Romania, it was divided by the Treaty of Trianon (1920) between Romania and newly independent Yugoslavia, with the Szeged district reserved for Hungary.
reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/banat/20051205191209990028   (298 words)

  
 Banat
The first and last consistent coat of arms for the whole Banat is the coat of arms as crown land (Kronland) of the Habsburg monarchy.
The Banat was (and is since 1992 again) represented by the Trajan Bridge and the golden lion with the curved sword.
After the wars against the Turks there was only one of those Banats, the Banat of Temesvár (Temeshburg), which received its name on the occasion of the peace of Passarowitz, however there was never one "Gehe zu Ban".
www.flaggenlexikon.de /fbanat.htm   (1857 words)

  
 The flood in Banat
Djilas believes the government will fulfill its promises to help and reconstruct flooded region of Banat, and pointed out that it would be of great significance to people of Banat if government declares the state of natural disaster, and in that way legalize situation in flooded region.
The first packages of humanitarian aid were delivered to the inhabitants of flooded region of central Banat in the aid action that was initiated by People’s Office of the President and B92.
Within the humanitarian action for population of central Banat, the region that was struck by flood, the first packages of humanitarian aid were delivered to township of Secanj.
www.narodnakancelarija.srbija.yu /eng/banat/banat.htm   (1710 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/banatsahar
Based out of Bellingham, Washington, Banat Sahar are a dynamic ensemble of entertainers who perform live music, song and dance of the "greater" Middle East.
Banat Sahar, the "Daughters of the Dawn" first began performing together in the summer of 1998.
Banat Sahar can be found entertaining audiences around the Pacific Northwest.
www.myspace.com /banatsahar   (309 words)

  
 German Genealogy: Donauschwaben in the Banat, including the Arader Land
From 1848 to 1860 the Banat and the Batschka were ruled directly by the crown.
Die Banater Schlafkreuzerrechnungen / The German Emigration and Settlement in the Province Banat in Austro-Hungary 1766-1804
A part of the Banat was included in the Austro-Hungarian Military Border Region for which there are special research considerations.
www.genealogienetz.de /reg/ESE/dsbanat.html   (2608 words)

  
 Banat
Banat is the most significant post war stallion of the Kuhailan
Banat was sent briefly to the UK in exchange for Burkan.
After his return to Poland, he was sold to the US in 1986 for $525,000 where he died shortly after his arrival.
www.wintersteenarabians.com /banat.htm   (81 words)

  
 Skarns in Romania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Ocna de Fier - Dognecea mining area (Banat, SW Romania) is located in the western part of the South Carpathians, 12 km north-west of the Caras-Severin county capital city of Resita (Plate 1).
He recognises that in all the contact type deposits from Banat, the intrusive, although highly variable petrographically, is consanguine.
In spite of the isolation, research by Romanian geologists continued, and many of the problems related to the geology and mineralogy of the deposit were solved.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~meinert/Romania.html   (6921 words)

  
 Banat Casablanca - Bios
I joined Banat Casablanca in 2002 and have been shimmying ever since.
Banat Casablanca is a diverse dance family of fascinating people who all share the love of the dance and respect for each other.
In 2003 I saw Banat Casablanca perform at the International Bazaar at Western Illinois University and I was both dazzled and mesmerized.
www.banatcasablanca.com /bios.htm   (1090 words)

  
 This site is dedicated to the promotion of Banat Chicken Pigeons as a show breed as well as a squabbing breed
This site is dedicated to the promotion of Banat Chicken Pigeons as a show breed as well as a squabbing breed.
Banat Chicken Pigeon is quite simple pigeon to breed, so it's highly recommended to beginners.
During the year one pair of Banat Chicken Pigeons is capable of raising up to 12 young ones, with average weight of 450 to 600 grams.
www.geocities.com /pigeon1986/main.htm   (612 words)

  
 Civic Culture in Banat and Transylvania
In order to proceed to an analysis of the civic culture in Banat and Transylvania, one must take into consideration that these regions (as well as others with similar historical traditions, such as Silezia, Moravia, Galicia, Slovakia, Croatia, Bukovina) were emancipated later and only partially in comparison with the French, North Italian and Dutch regions.
It was due to the fact that the Banat County, as a border region, had uncontrollable contacts with its Central European neighbors.
Aktionsgruppe Banat was very active in city life during 1972-1975, but its initiatives did not move the civil society to demonstrate against the social order.
www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-15/civic_culture_in_banat_and_trans.htm   (6460 words)

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