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Also see: Aleksa Šantić (disambiguation)

Aleksa Šantić (Template:Lang-sr) is a village located in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The population of the village numbering 2,172 people (2002 census) and most of its inhabitants are ethnic Serbs.

Name

The village is named (in 1924) after Aleksa Šantić, a Serb poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Serbian, the village is known as Aleksa Šantić or Алекса Шантић, in Croatian as Aleksa Šantić, and in Hungarian as Babapuszta or Sári or Hadikkisfalu.

History

In 1468, settlement named Sáripuszta was mentioned at this location. Present-day village was founded between 1923 and 1926 and was settled by Serb volunteers from World War I. During the Hungarian Axis occupation in World War II, name of the village was changed to Fernbach.

Historical population

• 1961: 1,751
• 1971: 2,064
• 1981: 2,259
• 1991: 2,267
• 2002: 2,172

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

• Aleksa Šantić - www.soinfo.org

v t e Cities, towns and villages in the West Bačka District
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Apatin	Kupusina Prigrevica Svilojevo Sonta
Kula	Kruščić Lipar Nova Crvenka Ruski Krstur Sivac Crvenka
Odžaci	Bački Brestovac Bački Gračac Bogojevo Deronje Karavukovo Lalić Ratkovo Srpski Miletić
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