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Between 1941 and 1944, the Serbian Banat was occupied by the World War II Axis powers.

Formally it was part of Serbia, but it actually was a virtually separate autonomous region ruled by its German minority.

Since 1945, the Serbian Banat ( together with Bačka and Syrmia ), has been part of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, first as part of the Second and Third Yugoslavias, then as part of Serbia and Montenegro, and, since 2006, as part of an independent Serbia.