Subordonarea administrativă a Banatului de Severin față de autoritatea centrală din Transilvania
The administrative subordination of the Banat of Severin towards the central authority in Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The emergence and development of the Banate of Severin subscribes into a wider process of expanding the royal Hungarian authority south and east from the Carpathians by means of a strong political and military defensive supported equally by a confessional expansion. The present paper aims to present the history of the administrative-territorial unit within the Hungarian kingdom known as the Banate of Severin, during the second half of the 13th century. This particular structure was led by a member of the high nobility, at the same time an important figure on the kingdom’s political stage during the last decades of the Arpadian dynasty. Thus, by means of the issued documents and the portrayal of the period’s volatile historical context, we strive to analyze and reveal the institutional subordination of the Banate towards the central Transylvanian authority, led either by a duke or by the voivode.

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