Srpski Krstur

Srpski Krstur Српски Крстур (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
The village of Srpski Krstur
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	23334
Area code	+381(0)230
Car plates	KI

Srpski Krstur (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски Крстур) is a village located in Serbia, in the Novi Kneževac municipality of the North Banat District, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (69.81%) with a present Romani (13.58%) and Hungarian minority (9.38%). It has a population of 1,620 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Српски Крстур / Srpski Krstur (also simply Крстур / Krstur), in Croatian as Srpski Krstur, and in Hungarian as Ókeresztúr.

Its name means "the Serb Krstur" (There is also a village of Ruski Krstur in Vojvodina, meaning "the Rusyn Krstur"). The Serbian name of the village derived from Serbian word krst ("cross" in English), while Hungarian name derived from Hungarian word kereszt (meaning "cross" in English too). The Hungarian word kereszt itself is of Slavic origin - variants of this word in some other Slavic languages are including Bulgarian "Кръст" ("krst"), Russian "Крест" ("krest"), Ukrainian "Хрест" ("hrest"), etc.

History

Bronze Age graves of south Russian steppe nomads were found in nearby Đala.

The village was mentioned first in 1390. According to some claims, it was mentioned in the 15th century under name Papkeresztúr.^[

.

In 1526-1527 it was part of the Serb state of Emperor Jovan Nenad, and was subsequently included into the Ottoman Empire. During the Ottoman administration, the village was part of the Temeşvar Eyalet. In the middle of the 17th century, the village was uninhabited.

It was repopulated in the 18th century, during the Habsburg administration. In 1717, population of the village numbered 4 houses. In 1752, the village was populated by Serbs, who came from the abolished parts of the Military Frontier in Pomorišje and the population of the village increased; in 1787 its population numbered 719, and in 1850 1,793 inhabitants.

From 1718 to 1778, the village was part of a separate Habsburg province known as the

Torontal County. In 1910 census, majority of village inhabitants spoke the Serbian language.^[1]

In 1918, the village firstly became part of the

Banat, which was governed by its German

minority.

Since 1944, the village is part of autonomous

Yugoslavia

.

Historical population

• 1961: 2,415
• 1971: 2,201
• 1981: 1,794
• 1991: 1,552

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2012-04-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Further reading

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

External links

• "Srpski Krstur online". Official page - Zvaničan sajt. Archived from the original on 2011-09-04.

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