Welcome to Virtual Banat!
Banat is the historical province lying in the south-eastern extremity of the territorial entity called Mitteleuropa.
The area of Banat, square-shaped, has the following natural borders: the Mureş River in the north, the Tisa River in the west, and the Danube in the south; its eastern border is a route that crosses the Southern Carpathians in the west and the Western Carpathians in the south.
Banat covers an area of 28,526 km2, which today is divided into three regions. The largest of them, about two thirds, belongs to Romania (18,966 km2); one third belongs to Serbia, and a small part, 284 km2, belongs to Hungary. From the administrative point of view, today’s territory of Banat is divided as follows:
First-time events in Banat
1002 – The first monastery on the territory of present-day Romania was at Morisena (today Cenad Village, Timis County). Its patron saint was St. John the Baptist and it was a monastery of Orthodox monks.
1030 – The first school on the current Romanian territory was opened at Cenad (Timis County). The teaching language was Latin.
About 1179 – the Abbey at Igris, founded by the Cistercian monks of the Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy, sheltered the first library on the Romanian territory, containing works of philosophy, theology etc. The library contained works of Cicero, Suetonius, Seneca and Quintilian.
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