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Aleksa Šantić Алекса Шантић
Village
Country Serbia
Province Vojvodina
DistrictWest Bačka District
MunicipalitySombor
Population
 • Total2,172
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Sombor Kljajićevo Čonoplja Svetozar Miletić Telečka Bački Monoštor Bezdan Kolut Bački Breg Gakovo Kruševlje Stanišić Aleksa Šantić Rastina Riđica Stapar Doroslovo Municipality
of Sombor

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

References

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

External links

Cities, towns and villages in the West Bačka District
Sombor
Apatin
Kula
Odžaci
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45°56′N 19°20′E / 45.933°N 19.333°E / 45.933; 19.333

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