At http://books.google.com/books?id=jrVfdmUQMpwC&dq=KOHL,+Austria.+Vienna,+Hungary,+Bohemia+and+the+Danube&source=gbs_navlinks_s is Johann Georg KOHL's, “Austria: Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria, Moravia, Bukovina, and the Military Frontier”, Chapman and Hall, 1844, 532 pages. It contains a "condensed translation" of J.[ohann] G.[eorg] KOHL, “Hundert Tage auf Reisen in den österreichischen Staaten”, Vierter Theil. “Reise in Ungarn”. Zweite Abtheilung. “Das Banat, die Pusten und der Plattensee”, Dresden und Leipzig, in der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, Druck von B. G. TAUBNER in Leipzig, 1842, X + 503 + [1] pg. At page 305, the following is written about the "Shokatzes" from Rekas: “The largest village between Lugos and Temesvar, is Rekas, an extensive colony, mostly inhabited by Germans, though partly also by another people called here "Shohatzes". I inquired who these might be, whether they were perhaps Rascians or Servians? The answer was in the negative. One said they were Roman Catholics from Illyria, another that they were baptized Turks; another and a better founded notion seemed to be that they were Dalmatians. I mention these various opinions merely to show the confusion of nations that has taken place in Hungary.” I strongly suggest a close reading of this book because contains a lot of info regarding Banat! On Johann Georg KOHL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Kohl S o r i n http://www.genealogy.ro/contributions.htm