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Latest Update: 27 January 2003
Banat Mailing List Contact: Steve Herold
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FEEFHS Representative: Bob Madler
BACKGROUND: This list, which now has over 600 subscribers,
was founded by Bob Madler in February, 1995 to serve as a forum
for help and discussion for those interested in Donauschwaben
history, customs, and genealogy.
The term Donauschwaben or Danube-Swabians refers to the people
who settled in and around the Danubian (Pannonian) Plain of
Eastern Europe following Austrian conquest over the Ottoman
Turks. Beginning in the mid to late seventeenth century, the
Austrian government recruited predominantly German-speaking
settlers from Germany, France, Switzerland, and other
central-european countries to rebuild these areas and further
their interests and influence there.
Most of the settlers migrated in groups by barge down the
Donau (Danube) River, embarking from Ulm, Schwaben
(Swabia), Germany; hence the name, Donauschwaben. The two
largest settlement areas were known as Banat and Batschka. After
WWI, these areas became part of Hungary, Romania, and
Yugoslavia.
Information on Banat Mailing list and Donauschwaben can be
found at: www.banaters.com
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