History of Banat |
Historical Banat |
Voivodship of Glad |
Voivodship of Ahtum |
Eyalet of Temeşvar |
Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes |
Banat of Temeswar |
Banatian Military Frontier |
District of Velika Kikinda |
Voivodeship of Serbia and Temes Banat |
Temes County |
Torontál County |
Krassó-Szörény County |
Banat Republic |
Modern Romanian Banat |
Ţinutul Timiş |
Timiş County |
Caraş-Severin County |
Vest development region |
Modern Serbian Banat |
Banat, Bačka and Baranja |
Banat (1941–1944) |
North Banat District |
Central Banat District |
South Banat District |
Modern Hungarian Banat |
Csongrád County |
The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe that is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad south of the Mureș, and the western part of Mehedinți); the western part in northeastern Serbia (mostly included in Vojvodina, except for a small part included in the Belgrade Region); and a small northern part lies within southeastern Hungary (Csongrád county).
The region of Banat is populated by ethnic Romanians, Serbs, Hungarians, Romani, Germans, Krashovani, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Czechs, Croats, Jews and other ethnicities.
During the Middle Ages, the term "banate" was designating a frontier province led by a military governor who was called ban. Such provinces existed mainly in South Slavic, Hungarian and Romanian lands. In South Slavic and other regional languages, terms for "banate" were: Serbian - бановина / banovina, Hungarian - bánság, Romanian - banatul and Latin - banatus.