Morout was a Prince of Poland who had supposedly subdued Bractari and ruled as Emperor of the Bulgars and Moravians.

[3][4] Prince Morout occupied Crișana and the people that are called Cozar inhabited that land in reference to the Cozlones.

[5] Jews living in the area transmitted a letter written about 960 CE to King Joseph of the Khazars by Hasdai ibn Shaprut.

In 1552, the Ottoman Empire occupied the southern part of Crișana and included it in the newly established Temeşvar Eyalet.

According to the Treaty of Speyer (1570), the rest of Crișana became part of the Principality of Transylvania, a successor state of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.

During Habsburg administration, Crișana did not, on the whole, have special status such as that of Transylvania or the Banat; briefly, from 1850 to 1860, it was organized as the Military District of Großwardein.

Romanian Crișana is located within the Pannonian basin and bounded in Romania by Maramureș to the north, Transylvania proper to the east, Banat to the south, and Hungary to the west.