Populații atestate în Banat în secolele IX-XII surse istorice și problemele arheologice
Population attested in Banat in the 9th-12th centuries Historical sources and archaeological problems

Summary/Abstract: The author proposes to collect, in this article, the historical information concerning the ethnic groups attested in the territory of the Banat (delimited to the north by the riverMureş, to the west, to the Tisza, to the south, to the Danube and to the east, pAr the Carpathians) from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, information taken from the sourcesAnd the documents issued at the time. We also intended to obtain information in order to identify the religions practiced as well as the administrative situation of the region, while correlating them with the funeral archeological investigation to see to what extent the two types of " Information is compatible. Thus, from the historical point of view, in the ninth century, the Marvans or Merehans, a Slav tribe, were in dispute with the Bulgarians who had attacked them. In the tenth century, the nomadic steppe populations were attested (the Black Hungarians, identified with the Kabares), as well as the Slavs and the Romanes. The toponymy bears witness to the presence of groups from the seven tribes that penetrated Pannonia at the end of the 10th century (Jenö, Nyék, Terjén, Varsany, Kér, Keszi, Gyarmat). With regard to their religion, one observes the practice of ChristianityEastern riteBut also pagan beliefs where the shamans had the primordial role.It is not at all excluded that, in the south of the region, especially in the mountainous part, the bogomile heresy would have penetrated.

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