Names
The term "banat" or "banate" designated a frontier province led by a military governor (or ban, in old South Slavic languages).
In the past, there were 3 banates that partially or entirely included territory of present-day Banat: the Banat of Severin, the Banat of Lugos and Karansebes and the Banat of Temeswar. When the word "Banat" occurs without any other qualification, it indicates the territory of historical Banat of Temeswar, which acquired this title after the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz, though it was never governed by a ban.
The name of the Banat is similar in different languages of the region; Romanian: Banat, Serbian: Banat or Банат, Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság, Bulgarian: Банат, German: Banat, Ukrainian: Банат, Turkish: Banat, Slovak: Banát, Czech: Banát, Croatian: Banat, Greek: Βάνατον, Vànaton.
Read more about this topic: History Of Banat
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