n 1860 it was definitely incorporated with Hungary.
See Leonhard Boehm, _Geschichte des Temeser Banats_ (2 vols., Leipzig,
1861); Johann Heinrich Schwicker, _Geschichte des Temeser Banats_ (Pest,
1872).
BANATE (a corruption of Panaiti, their real name), or BANNOCK, as they are
now usually called, a tribe of North American Indians of Shoshonean stock.
They were sometimes known as "Robber Indians." Their former range was
southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. They are now divided between the Fort
Hall and Lemhi reservations, Idaho. They were generally friendly with the
whites, but in 1866 and in 1877-78 there were serious outbreaks. They
number about 500.
BANBRIDGE, a town of Co. Down, Ireland, in the west parliamentary division,
on the Bann, 23 m. S.W. of Belfast on a branch of the Great Northern
railway, standing on an eminence. Pop. of urban district (1901) 5006. To
mitigate a steep ascent, a central carriage-way, 200 yds, long, is cut
along the main street to a depth of 15 ft., the opposite terraces being
connected by a bridge. Banbridge is an entirely modern town. It is the
principal seat of the linen trade in the county, and has extensive cloth
and thread factories, bleachfields and chemical works. A memorial in Church
Square commemorates the Franklin expedition to the discovery of the
North-West Passage, and in particular Captain Francis Crozier, who was born
at Banbridge in 1796 and served on the expedition.
BANBURY, a market-town and municipal borough in the Banbury parliamentary
division of Oxfordshire, England, on the river Cherwell and the Oxford
canal, 86 m. N.W. of London by the northern line of the Great Western
railway. Pop. (1901) 12,968. The canal communicates northward with the
Grand Junction and Warwick canals, and there are branch lines of the Great
Central railway to the main line at Woodford, and of the London &
North-Western railway to Bletchley. The town is the centre of a rich
agricultural district, and there is a large manufacture of agricultural
implements; while other industries include rope and leather works and
brewing. Banbury cakes, consisting of a case of pastry containing a mixture
of currants, have a reputation of three centuries' standing. A magnificent
Gothic parish church was destroyed by fire and gunpowder in 1790 to make
way for a building of little merit in Italian style. The ancient Banbury
Cross, celebrated in a familiar nursery rhyme, was destroyed by Puritans in
1610. Durin
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