Swabian Turkey

[1] Despite the name, virtually no ethnic Turks live in the region; rather, the name refers to the area being formerly "Turkish" (i.e. Ottoman) territory before being repopulated by Germans ("Swabians").

Because much of the Pannonian Plain had been depopulated during the Ottoman wars in Europe, the Habsburgs began to resettle the land with Germans, especially from Swabia.

The vast majority of German settlement was organized by private ventures run by the nobility or the Roman Catholic Church.

The only two German-founded villages remaining in Swabian Turkey that were established by state ventures were Dunakömlőd (Kimling) and Németkér (Deutsch-Ker).

After the Fall of Communism in 1989, the Danube Swabians received minority rights, organisations, schools, and local councils and maintained their own regional dialect of German.