The comparative analysis of the institution of banat in the banat of Lugoj and Caransebes and in Oltenia, points out a multitude of similarities, but also significant differences for the evolution in time of a Romanian institution. The comparative study of the institution of banat in Oltenia and Banat has in view the XVIth-XVIIth centuries, the period of existence of the banat of Lugoj and Caransebes. First, it is important to highlight the resemblances

The privileges of Romanian districts, princes and nobles were renewed several times in the XVIth-XVIIth centuries by Queen Isabella in 1551 and by prince Gabriel Bathory in 1609. On the other hand, in the interval 1551-1658, Lugoj and Caransebes were fiscal goods (fact confirmed also by Constitutiile Aprobate ale Transilvaniei in 1653), fact that conferred them a special statute. These privileges were generally respected by the princes of Transylvania