The Satu Mare Swabians or Sathmar Swabians are a German ethnic group in the Satu Mare region of Romania. Romanian Germans, they are one of the various Danube Swabian subgroups that are actually Swabian in heritage, and their dialect, Sathmar Swabian, is similar to the other varieties of the Swabian German dialect.
The coat of arms of the Sathmar Swabians
The commune of Urziceni (German: Schonthal) in Satu Mare County
Trilingual Romanian-Hungarian-German sign in Satu Mare (German: Sathmar)
The Germans of Romania represent one of the most significant historical ethnic minorities of Romania since the late modern period onwards.
Evangelical Lutheran medieval fortified church in Axente Sever (German: Frauendorf) in Sibiu County (German: Kreis Hermannstadt)
Nemșa (German: Nimesch), a traditional Transylvanian Saxon village pertaining to the larger commune of Moșna (German: Meschen)
Biertan (German: Birthälm), one of the most important and imposing Evangelical Lutheran fortified churches in Transylvania
Râșnov (German: Rosenau), a noteworthy example of a well fortified Transylvanian Saxon town