Variaș (Hungarian: Varjas; German: Warjasch; Serbian: Варјаш, romanized: Varjaš) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania.

[4] Immediately after the union of Banat with Romania in 1918, the commune bore the official name Dănciulești, a name that was given up on the occasion of the administrative-territorial reform of 1925.

With a total area of 103.69 km2 (40.03 sq mi), Variaș commune covers 1.19% of the territory of Timiș County.

[2] The territory of Variaș commune is part of the Banat Plain and is located on the first terrace of the Mureș River.

The relief appears as a wide plain with small depressions and slight undulations without downhills exceeding 2–3°.

Variaș commune is located in a region where several climatic types intertwine: Mediterranean, temperate continental and oceanic.

In 1466 Variaș was bought for 500 guilders by the famous officer Ladislaus Dóczy, who stood out in the victory at Smederevo over the Ottoman Empire.

[2] Until the completion of the land drainage works, the first generations of settlers faced poverty and epidemics, due to the swampy terrain and the unhealthy climate.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, many residents were dispossessed of their property by the Expropriation Act[8] and deported to both USSR and Bărăgan (June 1951).

The return of the deportees to Variaș led to conflicts with Moldavian families settled in the locality, conflicts that lasted until the 1960s, when the blocks of flats were built on the site of the former headquarters of German volunteer firefighters in Variaș,[4] simultaneously with the decision of the first German families to emigrate to the Federal Republic of Germany.