Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes
| Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes | |||||||||
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| Banate of the Principality of Transylvania | |||||||||
| 1536–1658 | |||||||||
Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes in 1571 | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1536 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1658 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||
Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes (Hungarian: Karánsebesi-Lugosi bánság, Romanian: Banatul de Lugoj-Caransebeș, Serbian: Лугошка и карансебешка бановина, romanized: 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 1536, 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.