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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Romani People, Serbs, Hungarian People, King of the Gypsies, Romanians, Bunjevci, Banat Swabians, Šokci, Serbs in Hungary, Székelys of Bukovina, Jassic People, Turks in Hungary, Serbs of Budapest. Excerpt: The Banat Swabians are an ethnic German population in Southeast Europe , part of the Danube Swabians . They emigrated in the 18th century to what was then the Austrian Banat province, which had been left sparsely populated by the wars with Turkey . This once strong and important ethnic German minority has now become quite small. Most of its members were expelled to the West by the Soviet Union and its subsidiaries after World War II . Others left for economic and emotional reasons after 1990. At the end of the World War I, in 1918, an attempt was made by the Swabian minority to establish an independent Banat Republic ; however, the province was divided according to the Wilsonian Principles of autodetermination (this is the wish of the majority population), by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, and the Treaty of Trianon of 1920. The greater part was annexed by Romania , a smaller part by former Yugoslavia , and a small region around Szeged remained part of Hungary . The German-speaking community of Banat met in Timisoara and their representatives sworn to be loyal to the enlarged Romanian Kingdom. Banat and the Danube Swabians The Banat colonists are often grouped with other German-speaking ethnic groups in the area under the name Danube Swabians . Besides the Banat, these groups lived in nearby western Baka in Voivodine, Serbia, in Swabian Turkey (present-day southern Hungary), in Slavonia , and in Satu Mare , Romania. All of these areas were under Austrian rule when the immigrants were encouraged to settle among local populations into the lands newly recovered from Turkish ru...