Grebenac
Grebenac
Гребенац ( UTC+2 (CEST) | |
|---|---|
| Postal code | 26347 |
| Area code | +381(0)13 |
| Car plates | VŠ |
Grebenac (
Bela Crkva municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina
province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority (82.3%) and a population of 1,017 (2002 census).
It was the site of an
ancient Roman fort
.
Name
In Serbian, the village is known as Grebenac (Гребенац), in Romanian as Grebenaț, in Hungarian as Gerebenc, and in German as Grebenatz.
Historical population
Romanian presence is attested by a stone cross in the local graveyard, from 1297 and by a document in Wiena about a trial between Luca family and another local family. In 1970s some 490 residents of Grebenac went abroad as
- 1961: 2,129
- 1971: 2,040
- 1981: 1,893
- 1991: 1,608
Personalities
- Vasko Popa, poet; studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna. During World War II, he fought as a partisan and was imprisoned in a German concentration camp.
See also
- List of places in Serbia
- List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References
- ISBN 0-691-07730-4.
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links
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