Sathmar Swabian

plural Sathmar Swabians

1. A member or descendant of the ethnic German (Swabian) community in Sathmar (Satu Mare), a region now mostly in Rumania with a small part in Hungary.

   2006, Hans Gehl, "The Sathmar-Swabian Dialects and Their Speakers", translation of Die sathmarschwäbischen Dialekte und ihre Sprachträger, in Philologica Jassyensia (summary: "... The Sathmar Swabians lacked spiritual leadership, ..."

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   Since the final stages of WWII, Romania has not been the only country where substantial groups of Sathmar Swabians can be found.

   1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority

   A smaller Swabian group, known as Sathmar Swabians, lives in northern Transylvania, in the Satu Mare district.

   1991, Report on Eastern Europe, volume 2, issues 27-39, page 32

   Transmigration seems to be the ongoing destiny of Sathmar Swabians.

   2014, Michael O'Loughlin, The Ethics of Remembering, →ISBN

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to this German community or its lect.

   At the German department of the University of Timisoara (Temeswar) in the Banat, Romania, a number of Sathmar Swabian linguistic studies were completed during the 1970's.

   1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority, page 14

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   In the lion's den, I took notes on the recollection of the stories the Sathmar Swabian students had shared with me. Unresolved trauma tends to repeatedly occur like a haunting nightmare. It must have been so for all the Sathmar Swabian […]

   2014, Michael O'Loughlin, The Ethics of Remembering, →ISBN, page 275