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SOME BASIC INFO ON BANAT

The historical Banat⁰ was almost a perfect square of 28.526¹ km² and had the following natural boundaries:

     -at N the Mureş / Maros / Mieresch¹ River;

     -at E the foothills of the Carpaţi Mountains / Transylvanian Alps;

     -at S the Dunãrea / Danube / Donau¹ River;

     -at W the Tisa / Tisza / Theiss / Theiß¹ River.

For old maps go to the home page of HUNGARIAN CARTOGRAPHY where you can find also the excellent COUNTY MAPS of the Habsburg/Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of XX century (you can chose between Gonczy maps & Osztrak-Magyar Monarchia varmegyei a XX szd. elejen maps), and you can located the Banat villages in Torontal, Temes or Krasso-Szoreny Varmegye/Counties.

At DONAUSCHWABEN² VILLAGES LIST Web Site is to be find a short description of each village in Banat.

Between:

-1716-1778  Banat was direct ruled by the imperial administration from Vienna [military administration 1718-1751; civil administration 1751-1778]; it is correct to say that Banat was an Habsburg House possession.

-1778-1848  Banat was incorporated to Hungary; the head of the Habsburg House was also the king of Hungary.

-4.03.1849-27.12.1860  Banat [inside the Vojvodatu Serbico et Temesiensi Banatu (in Latin language³); set up by the Imperial Constitution issued on 4.03.1849 at Olmutz / Olomouc; ceased to exist on 27.12.1860 when, by Imperial Decree, the region was re-annexed to Hungary] was ruled directly by the imperial administration from Vienna;

-1860-1919  Banat was formally a part of Hungary [after the Ausgleich, in fact only starting 27.12.1867, inside the imperial dualism of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy].

-starting 1779, from administrative point of view, in Banat existed 3 counties [or "varmegye"/"megye" in hungarian; "comitat" in german and romanian]:
           -Torontal [13.07.]
           -Timiş / Temes [22.06.]
           -Caraş / Krasso [5.08.]. Starting 1881⁴ Caraş-Severin / Krassó-Szörény.

-1919- after WW I, the historical Banat was split between:

-România [2/3; 18966 km²; Temes Varmegye lose it's South part];

-the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes [country known after 1929 as Yugoslavia] [1/3; almost all Torontal Varmegye; only the NE part of the comitat was incorporated to Timiş County/România] and

-Hungary [284 km²; meaning 1% of the total].

-in România, the new county was named Timiş-Torontal [on 13.06.1925].
-in 1929 [on 29.07.], the existing counties formed the Timiş Province: Timiş-Torontal, Caraş, Severin, Arad, and Hunedoara.
-in 1950 [on 6.09.], instead of the province, was enforced the Timişoara Region [formed by today's counties Timiş and Caraş-Severin].
-in 1956, half of the existing Arad Region [the south] was incorporated to Timişoara Region.
-in December 1960, Timişoara Region was named Banat Region.
-Starting 17.02.1968, a new territorial division was made in România and today's Timiş, Caraş-Severin and Arad Counties were formed.
 
If you will analyze these counties -i.e. Torontal, Temes, Krasso-Soreny- using the Lazarus Maps, you will see that their shape was "on vertical"/starting on the Mureş River [at North] and ending at Danube River [in South] for Timiş County.

To see the old historical Banat [prior to WWI] and it's county shape and composition, you can check the following map which was published in a book written by Dr. Bodor Antal at the beginning of the XX Century:

      Normal Resolution [0.3 MB]
      High Resolution [1,7 MB]

If you will analyze the shape of today Timiş County you can observe that the shape is "on horizontal" [starting at the western border of România and ending almost at the foothills of the Carpaţi Mountains].

If before WW I, Timiş County had 7110,56 km²; in our days Timiş County has 8678 km².

NOTE:

[0] In Romanian language: Banat / in German: Banat / in Hungarian: Bánát, Bánság / in Serbian: Banat, Banate, Banoviva / in Croatian: Banat, Banovina / in English: Banat / in Latin: Banatus / in Esperanto: Banato.

[1] In fact, the information's are quite contradictory on this subject and each source of info will give a different number as Banat's surface. So, we can tell, without hesitation, that we do not know yet the exact surface of Banat!

Mureş (in romanian language) / Moros (hungarian) / Moravica (serbian) / Marosch, Mieresch (german)

Dunãrea (romanian) / Duna (hungarian) / Dunav (serbian, bulgarian) / Dunaj (slovakian) / Donau (german) / Danube (english) / Danuvius (latin) / Istros (greek), Ister (latinised greek) / Danu (celtic)