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Banat

[ ban-it, bah-nit ]

noun

  1. a fertile low-lying region extending through parts of Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.


Banat

/ ˈbænɪt; ˈbɑːnɪt /

noun

  1. a fertile plain extending through Hungary, Romania, and Serbia


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Banat1

< Serbo-Croatian Bànāt < Medieval Latin Banātus ( Temesiēnsis ); ban 3, -ate 3

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Example Sentences

Another Yazidi man from south of the mountain near Tel Banat told me that his kreef is protecting his sheep.

The left bank of the river belongs to Hungary, and is called the “Banat;” it presents an appearance somewhat less desolate.

The Chessy and Banat azurite is most profitably employed to make sulphate of copper.

On a mild February afternoon I was waiting for the train at a wayside station in north-western Banat.

They were founded after all, he said, for the people of the Banat and of those a majority were now Roumanian.

Between Serbs and Roumanians of the Banat an ecclesiastical dispute was on the horizon.

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