Visit Electronic Banat BANAT was a district in the south-east of
Hungary, consisting of the counties of Torontall, Temes and
Krasso. The term, in Hungarian, means generally a frontier
province governed by a ban and is equivalent to the German term
Mark. There were in Hungary several banats, which disappeared
during the Turkish wars, as the banat of Dalmatia, of Slavonia,
of Bosnia and of Croatia. But when the word is used without any
other qualification, it indicates the Temesvar banat, which
strangely acquired this title after the peace of Passarowitz
(1718), though it was never governed by a ban. The Banat is
bounded to the East by the Transylvanian Alps, South by the
Danube River, West. by the Thieiss River and North.by the Maros
River. It has an area of 11,260 square meters and is mountainous
in the south and southeast, while in the north, west and south-
west it is flat and in some places marshy. The climate, except
in the marshy parts, is generally healthy. It is well-watered,
and formed one of the most