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Price trip/person: 223 EUR
	Included services: bus transportation for itinerary; guide; entraces for museums accommodation H ***, 1 night Timisoara, 2 nights Semenic half board Minim group: 20 persons   Other prices: 216 Euro/person (group of min 30 persons) 210 Euro/person (group of min 40 persons)

About Banat Country

The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in Romania (the counties of Timis, Caras-Severin, Arad south of the Mures/Maros river, and Mehedinti), the western part in Serbia (the Serbian Banat, mostly included in the Vojvodina region, except for a small part included in Central Serbia), and a small northern part in Hungary (Csongrád county). It's populated by Serbs, Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Germans, Krashovans, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Czechs and by many other in smaller number. People who live in Banat are called Banatians.

The Banat is a part of the Pannonian plain bordered by the River Danube to the south, the River Tisza (Theiss, Tissa, Tisa) to the west, the River Mures to the north, and the Southern Carpathian Mountains to the east. Its historical capital was Timisoara, now in Timis county in Romania.

The term "banate" or "banat" designated a frontier province governed by a ban.

The word "ban" is of Slavic origin meaning lord or governor or viceroy. Thus, Banat may be translated loosely as "province". In the 1920s and 30's the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was divided into several banovinas: Zeta, Drinska, Savska, Moravaska etc.

There were several banats in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, such as the banats of Dalmatia, Slavonia, Bosnia, and Croatia; these disappeared during the course of the Ottoman wars in Europe. But when the word is used without any other qualification, it indicates the Banat of Temeswar, which strangely 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 the languages of the region; Romanian: Banat, Serbian: ????? (Banat), Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság, German: Banat, Turkish: Banat, Slovak: Banát, Banat Bulgarian: Banát, and Standard Bulgarian: ????? (Banat).

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