Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes explained

Native Name:Karánsebesi-Lugosi bánság
Banatul de Lugoj-Caransebeș
Лугошка и карансебешка бановина
Lugoška i karansebeška banovina
Conventional Long Name:Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes
Common Name:Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes
Subdivision:Banate
Nation:the Principality of Transylvania
P1:Banate of Severin
S1:Temeşvar Eyalet
Flag S1:Ottoman Flag.svg
Year Start:16th century
Year End:17th century
Image Map Caption:Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes in 1571
Today:Romania, Serbia

Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes (Hungarian: Karánsebesi-Lugosi bánság, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Banatul de Lugoj-Caransebeș, Serbian: Лугошка и карансебешка бановина|Lugoška i karansebeška banovina) was an administrative and territorial entity (banate) of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and the Principality of Transylvania. It existed from the first half of the 16th century, up to the 1658. The banate was organized as a militarized border area, created in order to defend the region from the advancing Ottoman Empire. Centered in cities of Lugoj and Caransebeș, it was encompassing the south-eastern part of the modern region of Banat, inhabited in those times by Hungarians, Romanians and Serbs.

History

The Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes was formed gradually between 1526 and 1536, after the battle of Mohács, when the Banate of Severin was divided. Its eastern side, from Orsova (present-day Orșova), came under the jurisdiction of the Wallachian ruler. In the western part, this new political and military border entity was formed.

In 1658, the new Prince of Transylvania,, ceded the region to the Ottoman Empire.

Cities

The Banate of Lugoj and Caransebeș included the following cities:

Bans of Lugoj and Caransebeș

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