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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
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banat   (1672 words)

  
 Banat - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It is part of the Pannonian plain bordered by the Danube river in the south, the Tisza (Theiss, Tissa, Tisa) river in the west, the Mureş in the north and the Southern Carpathians in the east.
The Banat province of Austria was abolished in 1778.
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.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Banat   (1359 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's Historical Chronology for the First Millennium A.D.
Banat’s region is belonging to the Burebista’s Geto-Dacian kingdom.
Banat belongs to the roman province of Dacia Apulensis.
the crumble of the byzantine Danube’s limes in the Banat region.
www.genealogy.ro /cont/20.htm   (1410 words)

  
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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).
It is mountainous in the south and south-east, while in the north, west and south-west it is flat and in some places marshy.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=6690   (554 words)

  
 Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen
The Banat is bordered by the middle course of the Danube, by the Theiss and the Marosch and by the eastern frontier of Transylvania.
Banat Swabians), the western Banat, the Batschka, the southern Baranya triangle, Syrmia and Slavonia to the newly created Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (from October 1929: Yugoslavia), and the remaining settlement areas were retained by what was left of Hungary (cf.
The south - 23,791 square kilometres (1,330,000 inhabitants in 1939) - was assigned to Poland.
www.z-g-v.de /english/aktuelles/?id=56   (14347 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Banat
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
It borders on Hungary in the northwest, on Serbia and Montenegro in the southwest, on Bulgaria in the south, on the Black Sea in the southeast, on Moldova in the northeast, and on Ukraine in the north.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Banat   (561 words)

  
 Electronic Banat
The Banat region is bordered on the E by Transylvania and Walachia, on the W by the Tisza River, on the N by the Muresul 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.
By the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718), the Banat was made an Austrian military frontier zone known as the Banat of Temesvar..
www.banatul.com /info/banat-history.shtml   (1754 words)

  
 serbia - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Sometimes with the sponsorship of Byzantium, and sometimes opposing it, the veliki zupan (a title equivalent to the rank of prince) Stefan Nemanja expanded his state seizing territories east and south, and newly annexed the littoral and the Zeta region.
Tzar Stefan Dusan doubled the size of his kingdom seizing territories to the south, southeast and east at the expense of Byzantium.
It has two autonomous provinces: Kosovo and Metohija in the south (with 30 municipalities), which is presently under the administration of the United Nations, and Vojvodina in the north (with 54 municipalities).
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Serbia   (5091 words)

  
 history XVIII
The South of Banat is a battle field.
In 1770, existed 8,683 bulgarians in Banat [at a population of ~450,000].
Banat had 270 schools [147 in romanian language; 60 in german language; 53 in serbian language; 3 in hungarian language and 2 in bulgarian language].
www.genealogy.ro /cont/20c.htm   (2115 words)

  
 Romania: Places: Banat Mountains
The landscape is dominated by the relief of Danube's Gorge crossed between the Banat Mountains and the extension of the Carpathians on Yugoslavian territory.
To the north of the Danube's Gorge are the Banat Mountains, with maximum heights between 700 to 1500 m.
The Banat Mountains are located in the north of Danube's Gorge (between Bazias and Cerna).
www.virtualmontana.org /virtualmontana/romania/places/banat.htm   (553 words)

  
 Banat - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Banat, region in south-eastern Europe, extending over areas of present-day western Romania, north-eastern Serbia, and southern Hungary, with a total...
The South Slavs (or Yugoslavs) are one of the five major ethnic groups of the Balkan Peninsula, incorporating the Serb, Croat, Slovene, and...
Romania is roughly oval in shape, with a maximum extent east to west of about 740 km (460 mi) and north to south about 475 km (295 mi).
au.encarta.msn.com /Banat.html   (96 words)

  
 Serbia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
After a struggle for the throne with his brothers, Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the Nemanjić dynasty, rose to power in 1166 and started renewing the Serbian state in the Raska region.
Soon after the Battle of Mohács, leader of Serbian mercenaries in Hungary, Jovan Nenad established his rule in Backa, northern Banat and a small part of Srem (These 3 regions are now parts of Vojvodina).
This, too, was a cause of tension between north and south, as Slovenia in particular experienced a period of strong growth.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Serbia   (5379 words)

  
 Skarns in Romania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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).
South of this block, the pit wall is made almost entirely of epidote retro-skarn.
This indicates the transition from the oxidic facies of the mineralization in the north (Ocna de Fier) to the sulphidic one in the south (Dognecea).
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~meinert/Romania.html   (6921 words)

  
 Banatul.com
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.
www.banatul.com   (524 words)

  
 Banaters Around the World
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, Price 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.
www.banaters.com /banat/clarkson.asp?category=history   (3828 words)

  
 dances
Dobrogea, on the Black Sea coast in south east Romania, is part of the Danube plain folklore with populations of Romanians from other areas, Aroumanians of Macedonia plus Turks, Bulgarians etc. Cadâneasca is a dance in an aksak (uneven) 9/8 rhythm devived from the word for a Turkish harem girl.
Banat, south-west of Transylvania, comprises a mountainous area of the Carpathians and part of the great plain.
This is characteristic to the Romanians of Transylvania and south west Romania.
www.eliznik.org.uk /subwebs/martisorul/m_dance.htm   (1880 words)

  
 THE HUNGARIANS OF VOJVODINA, CROATIA AND THE TRANSMURA REGION
Between the takeover in 1918 and 1924, and due to the forcible and clear anti-Hungarian mesures 44,903 Hungarians (military personnel, administration employees, intellectuals, landowners etc.) fled to the new Hungarian state territory (Rónai A. Due to the ethnic oppression the Hungarians and Germans were overrepresented among the overseas emigrées.
The natural population growth, especially the compact Hungarian ethnic block of the Tisza region continued to decrease due to Hungarian migration to urban settlements and emigration abroad, as well as a consequence of demographical natural decrease, resulted from the changed family size of that region.
Its only historical precedent was the province "Serbian Voivodship and Banat of Temesvár" created, separated from Hungary (1849) and repealed (1860) by the Habsburg absolutism as a part of the vengeance because of the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-1849.
www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/hmcb/hmcb06.htm   (2818 words)

  
 ZVA - Zichydorf Village Association - (Banat) - History of Village Name
Banat was a strategic military outpost for the ancient Roman Empire and they built several of the major cities that still exist today, such as the capital city of Temesvar.
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 in 1718, and the province was ceded to the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI after the Treaty of Passarovitz.
All the villages south of Temeschburg were reduced to rubble and burned to ashes.
feefhs.org /ZVA/zvillage.html   (1239 words)

  
 Temeschburg in the Battle Against the Turkish Yoke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
As was also the case in other Banat castles they had trouble in the liberation of Temeschburg from the Turkish yoke.
As the south Banat was in their hands, the rebels moved to the Betschkereker Mountain and they crushed the Turks here mercilously.
These conquered some south Banat castles, and as the Pascha was again moved from Temeschburg, he could be whipped into fleeing.
www.dvhh.org /timisquarters/temeschburg-turks.htm   (1926 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
South and east of the Danube is the Dobrudja, long cut off from the rest of the country by the river; it was a dusty steppe with little surface water, and historically less well developed than the other regions.
The Banat, or the Ba%na%t of Temesva%r Bounded by the Mures!
Under a convention between Romania and Yugoslavia, to settle border disputes in the Banat, three communes in Romania were exchanged for one town in Yugoslavia, on the basis of the inhabitants' national majority.
www.cse.psu.edu /~dheller/post/intro   (17527 words)

  
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Black Sea; on the south by Bulgaria; on the southwest by Serbia (part of the federation of Serbia and Montenegro); and on the west by Hungary.
To the north and east are the Carpathian Mountains, and along the south are the Transylvanian Alps, which continue south to the Danube gorge as the Banat Mountains.
In the west are the lowlands of the Tisza Plain, which are usually referred to as the Banat, adjacent to the Serbian border, and Crisana-Maramures, adjacent to Hungary.
members.tripod.com /mihairadu/Romania.html   (6317 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Romania / Glossary
Region bounded by the Tisza River on the west, the Mures River on the north, the Transylvanian Alps on the east, and the Danube on the south.
Black Sea coastal lands lying south of the Danube in southeastern Romania and northeastern Bulgaria.
Region of northwestern and central Romania of triangular shape, bounded on the north, east, and south by the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvanian Alps and the homeland of roughly two million ethnic Hungarians.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/romania/ro_glos.html   (1029 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.
Death, flight and expulsion led to the disappearance of the Donauschwaben from the western Banat in contrast to eastern and northern Banat where at least some have remained.
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)

  
 Kleinplaneten-Namen
The family emigrated from the Banat region to Germany in 1987.
The Banat, home of the "Donauschwaben'', is a European region between the Maros river in the north, the Transylvanian Alps in the east, the Danube river in the south and Tisza river in the west.
Segenthau, located in the Banat region south of the Maros river, is a small village founded in 1771 by German colonialists.
www.starkenburg-sternwarte.de /asteroiden/hps/namen.htm   (723 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Serbia and Montenegro: FAO - Emergency assistance for flood effected areas ...
South Banat, Vojvodina 26th April 2005 - While immediate concern is to ensure supply of food and shelter to the population at risk, the UN FAO joins the coordinated efforts in monitoring and mitigating the damages to the agricultural production and livelihoods in the flooded South Banat area.
For the last six days the population of Banat, North East of Vojvodina Province has been struggling against severe floods brought by heavy rain and snow melting in Carpathian Mountains.
Such support in flood remediation, coordination and technical assistance of the flooding impacts would be formulated according to the findings of the needs assessments performed in the affected area upon the inundation period.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6C3B73?OpenDocument   (655 words)

  
 Winne.com - Report on Serbia, Land of beauty, encouragement and enterprise
Still, Serbia is mostly mountainous, being ringed by the Dinaric Alps on the west, the Sar Mountains and the North Albanian Alps (Prokletije) on the south, and the Balkan and Carpathian mountains on the east.
The Morava-Vardar valley begins at the South of Vojvodina, is the most important connection between the North and South of the Balkan peninsula.
The airport is 17 km to the south - west.
www.winne.com /serbia/bf02.html   (7731 words)

  
 DVHH | Main Exchange | Regional Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
south of the rivers Danube and Drau/Drava with the cities of Esseg/Osijek and Belgrade.
Index of Banat Villages and their abbreviations Alexanderhausen Familienbuch in German, Romanian and Hungarian, plus countries referred to in English.
Slavonia's northern border is the river Drava, in the south is the river Sava and to the west the river Illova.
www.dvhh.org /research/regional   (1668 words)

  
 Relocation to Romania: Relocation Enterprises (EURA member): Relocation and Immigration services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It borders with Ukraine to the north, The Republic of Moldavia to the east, Bulgaria and Serbia to the south and Hungary to the west.
The capital Bucharest, located in the south, is the economic and political centre of the country.
The mountains descend into lowland areas with a series of huge plains; the Danube plain in the south, Banat Plain in the west and the Moldavia Plain in the east.
www.relocationenterprises.com /romania/romania_countryprofile.htm   (411 words)

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