Satu Mare Swabians

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Sathmar Swabians

German: Sathmarer Schwaben
The coat of arms of the Sathmar Swabians
Regions with significant populations
Counties Satu Mare County Sălaj County Maramureș County (i.e. north-western and northern Transylvania)
Languages
German (with the Sathmar Swabian dialect)
Religion
Primarily Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Germans (most notably Swabians and Danube Swabians respectively)
Native to north-western and northern Transylvania

The Satu Mare Swabians or Sathmar Swabians^[1][2] (German: Sathmarer Schwaben) are a German ethnic group in the Satu Mare (German: Sathmar) region of Romania.^[1] Romanian Germans, they are one of the various Danube Swabian (German: Donau Schwaben) subgroups that are actually Swabian in heritage,^[1] and their dialect, Sathmar Swabian, is similar to the other varieties of the Swabian German dialect.^[3]

Most were originally farmers in Upper Swabia who migrated to Partium (at the time Hungary, now Romania) in the 18th century, as part of a widespread eastward movement of German workers and settlers.^[1] Their principal settlements were Satu Mare, Carei, Petrești,^[1] and Foieni (German: Fienen) and they also settled in Urziceni (German: Schinal), Căpleni (German: Kaplau), Tiream (German: Terem), Beltiug (German: Bildegg), Ciumești (German: Schamagosch), and Ardud (German: Erdeed).

After World War II, many evacuated, migrated, or were expelled to what became West Germany.^[2] Those who remain in Romania, along with other German-speaking groups in this country, are politically represented by the FDGR/DFDR (Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania); in Germany, the Landsmannschaft der Sathmarer Schwaben in Deutschland (Territorial Association of Sathmar Swabians in Germany) represents and assists them.^[4] Nowadays, many are more or less magyarized and have become Hungarians.^[5]

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The Sathmar Swabians' ancestors stem from Upper Swabia (German: Oberschwaben) (situated in southern Württemberg area), present-day Germany when the first waves of agricultural colonists arrived in north-western and northern Transylvania during the 18th century, during the end of the Modern Age.

• Povești din folclorul germanilor din România by Roland Schenn, Corint publishing house, 2014 (in Romanian)