The Swaben are the original inhabitants of what used to be the Kingdom of Wuerttemberg and is now part of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Actually, the kingdom also included some Alemannen, which are closer related to the Swiss and lived along the Swiss border. Swabian (Suebian, Swaebisch) is the language spoken in the area.

 The initial settlers came from many regions of Germany, but primarily Swabia, during the time period of 1718 through 1787. After this time, the government-sponsored colonization was no longer encouraged, although some settlers continued to trek there and settle. These peoples included the Serbs, Croatians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Slovaks, Czechs, Italians and French. Since this area, of what was then Hungary was so heavily settled by German speaking people, the Hungarians began to refer to all the settlers as "Swabian." And since the major route into the Banat for these settlers was the river Danube, they eventually became Danube Swabians.

During the few hundred years that these people lived there, they maintained their form of the German language, customs and traditions. Even today, there are many of their descendants that still cook the ethnic foods and maintain the holiday traditions of their ancestors.