Banat Highland Germans
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The Banat Highland Germans or Banat Mountainous Germans (German: Banater Berglanddeutsche, Romanian: Germanii din Banatul montan) are an ethnic German sub-group which is part of the Banat Swabians (and the broader Danube Swabian group) who have been living in the mountainous part of the Banat (German: Banater Bergland or Montanbanat),[1] corresponding to Caraș-Severin County situated in present-day south-western Romania (and to a smaller extent Serbia as well).[2]
German: Banater Berglanddeutsche
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Regions with significant populations | |
Banat (south-western Romania), more specifically Caraș-Severin County | |
Languages | |
German (with the Banat Swabian dialect, a local type of the Swabian dialect) | |
Religion | |
Primarily Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Germans (most notably Swabians and Danube Swabians respectively) | |
Native to south-western present-day Romania |
Within the larger community of Banat Highland Germans, there have also been Zipser Germans (German: Zipser Sachsen), an ethnic German minority group which mostly settled in Maramureș and southern Bucovina from Zips, present-day Slovakia. The Banat Highland Germans are part of the Romanian Germans.