The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-14
BANAT REGION
 IS DESCRIBED
Territory In Hungary Is Pic tured by Geographic
 Society.

"Banat, in southeast Hungary, where Roumanian and Serbian claims conflict. Is rich in agriculture min erals, and history" states bulletin issued from Washington headQuar- ters of the National Geographic so- ciety.
 Political football of continental powers for centuries, battle-ground for armies that turned the course of European history, experiment station for early reclamation projects and scene of pioneer back to the farm movement. Banat never has cut a large political figure on its own ac- count.
 ''The district derives its name from @ form of government 1t never had. A territory governed by a man who Corresponds to the German mark graf, or the early Polish 'pan,' mean ing master or lord, was konwn as a banat under former Hungarian des- ignation. Banats of Dalmaia, Bosnia, and Crotia disappeared during the Turkish ware, but. curiously, the uame chung to the counties of Toron- sal, Temes, and Krasso -Seoreny. though this group never was ruled by ban
 Long referred to as "The Banat," |" the region today commonly Is called sBanat' Sometimes 1t is described more exactly as 'Banat Of Temesvar, thus identifying 1t by It's principal city, less than 200 miles southeast of Budapest,
 'Temesvar, picturesque and busy before the world war, bears both scars and monuments of its eventful history. It's springs were known to the Romans. The Tartars destroyed 1t. It's diet was the foundation for the Hungarian representative system.
 "fNear Temesvar were defeated the peasant forces headed by stephen Dosza, in their encounter with John Szapolyai of Pennsylvania, four cen turtles ago. Dosza was captured, @ throne of fire was built in mock hon or of the king of the peasants and as he was placed amid the flames a red crown was set upon his head. Thus Dosza's name became a Hun garian by-word for heroism, and, ac- | was srnitten with blindness for his cruelty.
 Today the crumbling walls of the inner city of Temesvar, from which radiate avenues, like wheel spokes, to four suburbs, bear testimony of the strong Notifications built by King Charles Robert of Anjou, one of the most powerful monarchs of his day.
 'tRich agricultural lands about the city, and throughout Banat, recall the drainage of marshes, swamps and thick forests, instituted by Maria Theresa, the Good Queen Bess' of Austrian history, who, incidentally almost accomplished the overthrow of Frederick the Great She failed partly because Russia abandoned the Allies of the Seven Years War.
 "An arsenal stands where Hunyadi Janos built a castle fifty years be- fore Columbus set sail for America. That famous Hungarian general Is credited with being one of the first military leaders to substitute strategy and organization for personal cour- age. So successful was his theory that he all but drove the Turks out of Europe.
 Conspicuous in Temesvars princi- pal square is Gothic shaft, ordered there by Emperor Francis Joseph, 1T recognition of the city's defenders during 1O7 day siege against Hun garian revolutionists of 1S49.
 "Banat covers an area a little smaller, and has a population slight ly greater, than the State of Mary land Temesvar today has & popula- ton about equal to that of Water bury, Conn, Elizabeth, N. J., or For Worth. Texas