Banat (1941–1944)
The Banat was a political entity established in 1941 after the occupation and partition of Yugoslavia by the Axis Powers in the historical Banat region. It was formally under the control of the German puppet Government of National Salvation in Belgrade, which theoretically had limited jurisdiction over all of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, but all power within the Banat was in the hands of the local minority of ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche). The regional civilian commissioner and head of the ethnic German minority was Josef Lapp. Following the ousting of Axis forces in 1944, this German-ruled region was dissolved and most of its territory was included into Vojvodina, one of the two autonomous provinces of Serbia within the new SFR Yugoslavia.
| Banat | |||||||||
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| Administrative unit of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia | |||||||||
| 1941–1944 | |||||||||
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Banat (envy) within the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (laurel). | |||||||||
| Capital | Veliki Bečkerek (Petrovgrad) | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1931 | 9,300 km2 (3,600 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1931 | 585,579 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Minority authoritarianism | ||||||||
| Vice Governor | |||||||||
• 1941–1944 | Josef Lapp | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Serbia | ||||||||