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Aleksa Šantić Алекса Шантић
Village
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	West Bačka District
Municipality	Sombor
Population
• Total	2,172
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Aleksa Šantić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Шантић) 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 and Croatian, the village is known as Aleksa Šantić (Алекса Шантић), and in Hungarian as Babapuszta, 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
• 2011: 1,778

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
Sombor	Aleksa Šantić Bački Breg Bački Monoštor Bezdan Gakovo Doroslovo Kljajićevo Kolut Rastina Riđica Svetozar Miletić Stanišić Stapar Telečka Čonoplja
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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