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  Banat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Banat of Temeswar province was abolished in 1778.
Banat of Temeswar, province of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1739
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 Banat - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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.
There were several banats in the Kingdom of Hungary, such as the banats of Dalmatia, of Slavonia, of Bosnia and of Croatia; these disappeared during the course of the Turkish Wars.
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BANAT (Hungarian Bansdg), a district in the south-east of Hungary, consisting of the counties of Torontal, Temes and Krasso-Szoreny.
The Banat is bounded E. by the Transylvanian Alps, S. by the Danube, W. by the Theiss and N. by the Maros, and has an 'ms: Banana (Musa sapientum).
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.
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 Banat Did You Mean banat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
According to 2002 census, the population of the Serbian Banat was composed of: Serbs (65%), Hungarians (18%), Romanians, Slovaks, etc.
Banat in 1720, took numerous measures for the regeneration of the Banat.
According to 1774 data, the population of the Banat of Temesvar was composed of:
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The centrifugal forces within the Hungarian kingdom are thus increased by the attraction of kindred nationalities established beyond its borders, a fact which is of special importance in considering the vexed and difficult racial problem in Hungary.
The principal mining regions are Zsepes-Gomor in Upper Hungary, the Kremnitz-Schemnitz district, the Nagybanya district, the Transylvanian deposits and the Banat.
The Orthodox Eastern Church in Hungary is subject to the authority of the metropolitan of Carlowitz and the archbishop of Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt) ; under the former are the bishops of Bacs, Buda, Temesvar, Versecz and Pakracz, and under the latter the bishops of Arad and Karansebes.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - TEMESVAR:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Between 1552 and 1716 large numbers of Spanish Jews settled in Temesvar, where the Turkish government received them with favor; but after the capture of the city in 1716 by Prince Eugene their treatment became less favorable, for Temesvar and its district were annexed to Hungary and administered as an Austrian province.
As in Bohemia and Moravia, the Jews of Temesvar were oppressed by the restrictions formulated by Maria Theresa in 1776.
Marriages might be performed only by the rabbi of Temesvar, and all Jews who died in the province were to be buried in the cemetery of the city.
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Banat is a region in Southeastern Europe divided among three countries: the eastern part belongs to Romania (the counties of Timiş and Caraş-Severin), the western part to Serbia-Montenegro (the Serbian Banat, mostly included in the Vojvodina, except for a small part included in Central Serbia), and a small northern part to Hungary.
Note that part of the "Banat Region" of Romania includes some areas that are mountainous and were not part of the historical Banat or of the Pannonian plain.
The territory of Banat is presently in the Romanian counties Timiş, Arad and Caraş-Severin, the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina and Belgrade City District, and the Hungarian county Csongrád.
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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: 2007-10-12)
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.
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 Banat Definition / Banat Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Banat (Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság, German: Banat) is a region in Southeastern Europe divided among three countries: the eastern part belongs to RomaniaRomania (formerly spelled Rumania or Roumania) is a country in southeastern Europe.
Its historical capital is TimişoaraTimişoara (Hungarian: Temesvár, German: Temeschwar or Temeschburg, Serbian: Temišvar, Turkish: Tamışvar) is a city in western Romania, in the Banat region, Timiş county, population 329,554 in 2000.
Banat is the Editor-in-Chief of the Telecommunications Magazine (in Arabic) and the coordinator of the Wireless Communications Center at JUST.
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 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.
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 Banat articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Banat region is bordered on the E by Transylvania and Walachia, on the W by the Tisza
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
Ahmed III AHMED III [Ahmed III] 1673-1736, Ottoman sultan (1703-30), brother and successor of Mustafa II to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
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 The Banat Region
The historical Banat region 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 (in Crişana on the map to the right), and the Southern Carpathian mountains to the east.
Banat is mountainous in the south and southeast, while in the north, west and south-west it is flat and in some places marshy.
After the Revolution of 1848-1849, the Banat (together with Srem and Bačka) was made into a separate Austrian crown land known as the Vojvodina of Serbia and Tamiš Banat, but in 1860 this province was abolished and incorporated again into Habsburg Hungary.
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The Banat Province was one of the primary areas of settlement.
A peace settlement at Karlowitz in 1699 brought Hungary, except for the Banat, under control of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I. Later, Prince Eugene captured the Banat, and the province was ceded to the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI after the Treaty of Passarovitz.
The Banat was considered a crown territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1718 to 1778 and was administered from Vienna during that period.
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 Banatul.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
BANAT was a district in the south-east of Hungary, consisting of the counties of Torontfll, Temes and Krasso-Szorény.
But when the word is used without any other qualification, it indicates the Temesvâr banat, which strangely acquired this title after the peace of Passarowitz (1718), though it was never governed by a ban.
After the revolution of 1848—I849, the Banat together with another county (Bflcs) was separated from Hungary, and created into a distinctive Austrian crown land, but in 1860 it was definitely incorporated with Hungary.
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 Ethnic Germans
The Banat was a fertile and mineral-rich belt of land located in northern Romania and included strips of Serbia and Hungary, settled centuries ago by ethnic Germans.
As Felix Milleker reported in his History of the Temesvar Banat, the Romanians from the neighboring villages used the occasion to enrich themselves at the expense of the German settlers.
During the revolutionary fights of 1848 in Werschetz, Pantschowa, Weisskirchen and also near Temesvar until the defeat of the rebellious Hungarians at Vilagos on August 13, 1849, the Swabians were on the side of the Hungarians—thus, against the Austrians.
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 Banat's Denominations
The geographical and historical region known today as BANAT [in Romanian language: Banat / in German: Banat / in Hungarian: Bánát, Bánság / in Serbian: Banat, Banate, Banoviva / in Croatian: Banat, Banovina / in Enhlish: Banat / in Latin: Banatus / in Esperanto: Banato] had lots of names during its history.
The Romanian Banat dialect was preserved along the Mureş River, from Toc to Cenad, as well as in many villages in the Arad vineyard region ["luncani" and "cimpeni"], in the western part of the Arad plain.
In 1552, the Temesvar eyaleti consisted from 4 sanjaks: Timisoara, Lipova, Cenad and Moldova.
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 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.
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 Art History - History of Art - Art History in Ottoman Empire - Ottoman Art History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The future of their Balkan possessions-Croatia-Slavonia, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Vojvodina, Slovenia, Bukovina the Banat of Temesvár, Transylvania, and Bessarabia-had to be decided by delegates at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-20), not in gradual and piecemeal fashion but altogether and immediately.
Because the population of Transylvania, the Banat, Bessarabia, and Bukovina was predominantly Romanian, the bulk of these areas were included in the Romanian kingdom.
The Banat and the Vojvodina were very mixed in ethnic composition; Transylvania had substantial Hungarian and German minorities; Bessarabia and Bukovina had many Jewish and Ukrainian inhabitants; the Slovenes did not speak Serbo-Croatian, and neither did the Macedonians or the Albanians of Kosovo.
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 German Genealogy: Donauschwaben in the Banat, including the Arader Land
The Donauschwaben colonies in the Banat were founded during the years 1748-1835.
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.
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 BAN & BANAT IN THE 1911 ENCYLOPEDIA
The Banat is bounded E by the Transylvanian Alps, S by the Danube river, W by the Theiss/Tisa river and N by the Maros/Mures river and has an area of 11260 sq.
The Banat was conquered by the Turks in 1552, and remained a Turkish sanjak [ie province;
The marshes hear the Danube and Theiss/Tisa were cleared, roads and canals were built at great expense of labor, German artisans and other settlers were attracted to colonize the district, and agriculture and trade encouraged.
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 Banat of Temesvar
Banat - Banat, region extending across W Romania, NE Serbia, and S Hungary.
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Vojvodina - Vojvodina or Voivodina, province (1991 pop.
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 Sky Signs: Eclipse Path--Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria
The chief city of the former Banat of Temesvar, it is a railroad hub and an industrial center.
Jewish legislation (Judenordnung) of 1776 for Jews in Banat region placed many restrictions but their situation improved when the region was returned to Hungary in 1779.
Until 1945 Timisoara was the center of the German organizations of the Banat region.
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 Electronic Banat
1740 Map of Banat of Temesvár by Reiner and Joshua Ottens
Banat 1789 Franz Joseph von Reilly was a Viennese goldsmith, mapmaker and publisher who flourished at the end of the 18th century.
Taken from the publication "Schauplatz der funf Theile der Welt" (roughly translated, Showplace of the Five Parts of the the World) it depicts the Banat of Temesvar, a region in southern Hungary, bordering the River Danube.
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 Timisoara and the Banat
These old cities, formerly part of the "Banat of Temesvar" are natural gateways to Transylvania, which may be approached either via the Iron Gate of Transylvania or the Mures Valley.
Timisoara ("Temesvar") has always been a progressive, cosmopolitan city, facing West rather than East, so it was no surprise that the spark of the 1989 Revolution.
Oradea is situated at the northern end of the Banat in a region often referred to
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 Political history of Vojvodina - www.ezboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Banat and Backa would be parts of this state.
Smaller Dunavska Banovina (including Banat and Sumadija) existed as part of Serbia between 1941 and 1944 and its capital city was Smederevo (But Banat itself was separate autonomous region and it was ruled by German minority).
Banat Region was abolished and split into 3 present day counties: Timis, Caras-Severin and Arad.
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Under Karl VI (1722-1726) 15,000 settlers were allowed to enter Banat and the new land taken from the Turks.
According to The BANAT GERMANS by Nikolaus Engelmann (translated by John Michels), Sackelhausen was settled by hundreds of German families in 1767.
Sackelhausen's first church reflected the baroque, which was the style Empress Theresa and her son and heir Joseph preferred.
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 Timisoara and the Banat with Transylvania Uncovered - Romania Travel Service - 2006 Holidays, quality hotels, ...
Unlike Transylvania, the Banat was under Turkish rule from 1552 until Prince Eugene de Savoy took Timisoara in 1716 for the Austrian Habsburgs.
The old cities of Timisoara, Arad and Oradea, formerly part of the 'Banat of Temesvár' are natural gateways to Transylvania, which may be approached either via the Iron Gate of Transylvania, the Crisul Repede Valley or the Mures Valley.
Oradea is situated at the northern end of the Banat, a region usually referred to as "Crisana" and noted for its thermal spas such as Baile Felix, which has comprehensive facilities, which have recently been refurbished, and a selection of resort hotels.
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 TimiSoara: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
The chief city of the former Banat of Temesvar, it is a railroad hub and an industrial center, with engineering works, plants processing food and tobacco, and factories manufacturing textiles, machinery, and chemicals.
Timişoara is a Roman Catholic and an Orthodox episcopal see and has a university (founded 1945) and other institutions of higher education.
...the case of the Prahova district and Timisoara for the Banat Mountains.
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 German-Russian Settlement Map
The 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 the west, by the Mures River in the north, and by the Danube River in the south.
Later a civil administration took control of the northern part of the area, and the Austrian rulers encouraged the settlement of colonists from the Rhineland (Germany), Lorraine (France), and Luxembourg.
The combined areas of the Banat and Bacska (Batschka?) is referred to as the "De'lvide'k".
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