Danube Swabian

Meaning

Noun

• A member or descendant of any of the unrelated, usually non-Swabian groups of Germans that settled along the Danube and elsewhere in southeastern Europe .

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Hungarian German
• Sathmar Swabian, Satu Mare Swabian
• Banat Swabian
• Vojvodina German

Origin

• Although most migrants were not from Swabia, the peoples they settled among (Hungarians, Romanians, etc) often referred to them all as Swabians.