Sânandrei (formerly Sântandraș; German: St. Andreas; Hungarian: Szentandrás; Serbian: Светандраш, romanized: Svetandraš) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania.

[2] Sânandrei is one of the oldest settlements in Banat, whose first recorded mention dates from 1230, when it was owned by the chapter of Arad.

[4] Thus, until the end of the 18th century, Sânandrei became a German locality, but the Romanians also remained an important community.

In the interwar period it was part of Plasa Chișoda, Timiș-Torontal County and was a prosperous locality.

After World War II, the number of Germans began to decline, and in the 1970s Romanians became the majority.

Carani was built in 1735 by Italian colonists brought by the Habsburg monarchy as part of a massive effort to populate Banat with Western Europeans.

It was one of the first villages for colonists, founded and inhabited exclusively by Italians, being the only majority-Italian settlement in the entire Banat.