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Banat (general region) |
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| Lat: 45 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 45.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 021 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 21.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Banat is a region of central Europe 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. Slavs, Serbs, and Magyars held it from the 5th century. The Hungarian crown ruled it from 800 to1500, notably by King Andrew II who organized it as Banat of Severin in 1233. Serbs settled there in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the mid-16th century it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, who retained it until 1718, when Austria acquired it. For most of the period from 1779 to 1920, Banat was attached to Hungary. After World War I, the victorious Allies divided it, and Hungary retained the district of Szeged, Romania acquired the large eastern section, and the remainder went to Yugoslavia in what is now Serbia. |
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