The hapsburgs’ religious policy in the Banat (1551–1552)
The hapsburgs’ religious policy in the Banat (1551–1552)

Summary/Abstract: In 1551, within the existing politic context, the Banat fell into the Hapsburgs’ hands. They had in view to consolidate their power in the province by asking the religious element service. In essence, the religious politics of the Austrian dynasty aimed two aspects: to support the Roman-Catholic Church and to eliminate the heresy from the Reformation sphere. The anti-Protestant measures from 1551 had disintegrated the Reformed community from Timişoara which never succeeded to come back to the anterior organizational shape. The Ottoman conquest in 1552 would put an end to the Hapsburgs’ political and confessional involving in the southern of the Mureş river province.

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