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.
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.
The Banate of Lugoj and Caransebeș included the following cities: