Nakovo
Nakovo
Наково ( UTC+2 (CEST) | |
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| Postal code | 23311 |
| Area code | +381(0)230 |
| Car plates | KI |
Nakovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Наково) is a village located in the Kikinda municipality of the North Banat District of Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. It is situated near the border with Romania. The population of the village numbers 2,419 inhabitants, of whom 2,301 (95.12%) are ethnic Serbs.
Name
Its name originates from Count Nako, who founded the village in 1784. In Serbian, the village is known as Nakovo or Наково, in Croatian as Nakovo, in Hungarian as Nákófalva, and in German as Nakodorf.
History
In the
heath
.
In 1782, the area came under the possession of the
Nako brothers, Greek traders from Macedonia. In order to provide a labour force for his estate, Kristifor Nako built 50 houses in 1784, and settled them with ethnic Hungarians
.
In 1790, a new wave of colonists settled the village. This time, they were
Catholic and 6 Orthodox
inhabitants, while in 1911, the population of the village numbered 538 households with 2,834 inhabitants.
In 1918, after
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (future Yugoslavia). During World War II (1941–1944), it was included into the German-occupied Banat region. As a consequence of events during the war and the Axis occupation, most of the German population fled from the village with the German Army in 1944. The smaller part of the population that stayed in the village was sent to prison camps. In 1945–1946, Serb families from Bosnia
came to the settlement.
See also
References
External links
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