Mokrin
Mokrin
Мокрин ( UTC+2 (CEST) | |
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| Postal code | 23305 |
| Area code | +381(0)230 |
| Car plates | KI |
Mokrin (Serbian Cyrillic: Мокрин) is the largest village in the Kikinda municipality, in the North Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (83.47%) with a present Romani (6.23%) and Hungarian minority (4.9%). It has a population of 5,270(2011 census) [1]
Name
In Serbian, the village is known as Mokrin (Мокрин), in Hungarian as Mokrin (previously Homokrév), and in German as Mokrin. The name of the village derived from Serbian word "mokro" ("wet" in English).
History
A Bronze Age Moriš (Maros/Mureș) culture necropolis of 312 graves was unearthed in Mokrin.[2] The graves of the men had large golden discs placed at the breasts. Only a small amount of the graves were found to have weapons and tools.[3]
The village was first named Homokrév and it was located on the banks of the river Harangoda, today referred to as
Its current name dates from 1723. In 1778, the village had a population of 1,609. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mokrin underwent a period of economic prosperity, mostly due to its strategic location on the Szeged-Timișoara railway, which was very important at the time. There were 1,780 households in Mokrin at that time and 9,279 citizens of which 6,233 were ethnic Serbs, 1,063 ethnic Germans, and 838 ethnic Hungarians.
Features
The village is famous throughout the region for its annual competition in striking
Famous people
- Milan Čeleketić, former major general
- Mika Antić, poet
- Đorđe Ivanović, football player
- Peđa Krstin, tennis player
- Raša Popov, writer, poet, journalist and TV personality
- Vasa Stajić, philosopher and writer
- Bogdan Ibrajter Tane, journalist, writer and painter
- Imre Szabó, photojournalist
- Dejan Dražić (DexRock), influencer
References
- ^ "Mokrin (Kikinda, North Banat District, Serbia) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
- ^ Dragoslav Srejović. Kulture bakarnog i ranog bronzanog doba na tlu Srbije // Izvor: Istorija srpskog naroda I, Srpska književna zadruga, Beograd, 1994.
- ^ O počecima bronzanog doba u Evropi vid. opširnije: M. Gimbutas, Bronze Age 32-47.
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