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( Banat)
The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe currently divided between three countries the eastern part lies in Romania (the counties of Timis, Caras-Severin, Arad south of the Mures/Maros river, and Mehedinti), the western part in Serbia (the Serbian Banat, mostly included in the Vojvodina region, except for a small part included in Central Serbia), and a small northern part in Hungary (Csongrád county). It's populated by Serbs, Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Germans, Krashovans, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Czechs and by many other in smaller number. People who live in Banat are called Banatians. 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 Mures to the north, and the Southern Carpathian Mountains to the east. Its historical capital was Timisoara, now in Timis county in Romania. The term "banate" or "banat" designated a frontier province governed by a ban. The word "ban" is of Slavic origin meaning lord or governor or viceroy. Thus, Banat may be translated loosely as "province". In the 1920s and 30's the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was divided into several banovinas Zeta, Drinska, Savska, Moravaska etc.
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