Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes


Banate of Lugos and Karánsebes was an administrative and territorial entity 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.

History

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, came under the jurisdiction of the Wallachian ruler. In the western part, this new political and military border entity was formed.
The Banate's Serbian ruler, Đorđe Palotić, provided material support for the Serb Uprising in Banat in 1594.
In 1658, the new Prince of Transylvania,, ceded the region to the Ottoman Empire.

Cities

The Banate of Lugoj and Caransebeș included the following cities:
  • Lugos
  • Karánsebes
  • Versecz
  • Boksánbánya
  • Resicza
  • Karasevo
  • Mehadia

Bans of Lugoj and Caransebeș