Callistus II was ready for peace; in 1122 an agreement was reached and the concordat was proclaimed at the Synod of Worms.
By it, in the so-called Religious Peace of Augsburg, Germany was divided between the Catholics and the adherents of the Augsburg Confession, and the territorial princes were practically made the political arbiters of the empire.
Thus, in spite of unrest, the peace of the empire was apparently not in immediate danger at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
But when the word is used without any other qualification, it indicates the Temesvarbanat, which strangely acquired this title after the peace of Passarowitz (1718), though it was never governed by a ban.
It received the title of Banat after the peace of Passarowitz (1718), and remained under a military administration until 1751, when Maria Theresa introduced a civil administration.
During the Turkish occupation the district was nearly depopulated, and allowed to lie almost desolate in marsh and heath and forest.
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