Banat
a large and fertile region, ing of the counties of Temesvar, Torontal, town, Temesvar.
The region originally belonged to Hungary; was occupied by the Turks in 1652- 1716; and was reunited to Hungary in 1799. By the treaty signed at Versailles on June 4, 1920 , the Banat became part of Rumania. Area, 11,009 square miles.
Pop. about 1,600,000. shire, on the Oxford canal and the