  thumb|300px|location of banat (dark green) in europe (territorially-involved countries light green) thumb|300px|map of the banat region the banat is a geographical and historical region in central europe that is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western romania (the counties of timiÈ, caraÈ-severin, arad south of the mureÈ, and the western part of mehedinÈi); the western part in northeastern serbia (mostly included in vojvodina, except for a small part included in belgrade region); and a small northern part lies within southeastern hungary (csongrÃ¡d county). the whole banat is populated by ethnic romanians, serbs, hungarians, romani, germans, krashovani, ukrainians, slovaks, bulgarians, czechs, croats, jews and other ethnicities. the banat is geographically referred to as a part of the pannonian basin bordered by the river danube to the south, the river tisa to the west, the river mureÈ to the north, and the southern carpathian mountains to the east. its historical capital was timiÈoara, now in timiÈ county in romania. == 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 three banates that partially or entirely included the territory of what is referred to in the current era as banat: the banat of severin, the banat of lugos and karansebes, and the banat of temeswar. the word "banat" without any other qualification, typically refers to the historical banat of temeswar, which acquired this title after the 1718 treaty of passarowitz. the name was also used from 1941 to 1944, during axis occupation, for the short-lived political entity (see: banat (1941â44)), which covered only today's serbian part of the historical banat. the name banat is similar in different languages of the region; ,  or ÐÐ°Ð½Ð°Ñ (),  or , , (), , , , , , . some of these languages would also have other terms, from their own frame of reference, to describe this historical and geographic region. == history == {{history of bana
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