Contested frontiers in the balkans : Habsburg and Ottoman rivalries in Eastern Europe

Acknowledgements viii Note on the Use of Place Names ix Index of Maps x 1. Introduction 1 2. Medieval Bans and Banates 4 3. Under the Sign of the Crescent 8 4. Habsburg Borderland 21 5. Orthodox Peoples 39 6. The Privileged and the Tolerated 54 7. Through the Looking Glass of Revolution 67 8. Citizenship and Constitutionalism 1867 - 1918 84 9. Parting of Ways 101 10. The Banat in Yugoslavia 110 11. The Banat in Romania 125 12. The Communist Experience 140 13. Exit from Communism: the Rise of Milosevic and the Fall of Ceausescu 156 14. War and Democracy: the Banat after 1989 172 15. Conclusions 183 Notes 189 Bibliography 210 Index 220