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- After World War I, when the area was divided between Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, the German population became known as Danube Swabians. This name was derived from the Danube river, where they lived now and Swabia, a province in Germany, where many of the settlers came from, originally.
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The Danube Swabians are German settlers of the former Austria-Hungary Empire. They founded villages, and worked as farmers. Their ancestors were once settled from 1686 - 1829 by the order of the House of Habsburg in Hungary, and parts of former Yugoslavia and Romania who belonged to the Habsburger Monarchy, from different parts from Austria and ...
The Danube Swabians are German colonists who were invited by Austrian-Hungarian Emperors to settle and repopulate the land after the Ottoman Empire was defeated by allied forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy .
The Danube Swabians is a collective term for the ethnic German-speaking population who lived in Kingdom of Hungary of east-central Europe, especially in the Danube River valley, first in the 12th century, and in greater numbers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Mar 29, 2019 · The Donauschwaben, or Danube Swabians, is a name used to describe the Germans who immigrated to provinces in Southern Hungary beginning in the early 1700s along the Danube River valley after the Turks were expelled.
Between 1763 and 1770 the second wave of immigration occurred and in 1782 the final wave of immigration. Since the majority settled near the Danube they were later named Danube Swabians. The Danube Swabians continued to speak German and keep their German traditions alive.
These people are known as Danube Swabians, an homage to their early 18th-century Swabian ancestors who left Germany by invitation to colonize parts of the Danube River Valley in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in what is today mostly Hungary, Romania, Croatia, and Serbia.
The Danube Swabians, A Documentary Film, Written and Directed by Marko Cvejic, Mandragora Films, Serbia. O Podunavskim Svabama / Uber die Donauschwaben /About the Danube Swabians (Book Review) Danube Swabians in Bulgaria, Coordinated by Rose Vetter and Anton Laigep. External Links:
