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(Redirected from Kruščica (Bela Crkva)) Village in Vojvodina, Serbia
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Coordinates: 44°52′21″N 21°15′11″E / 44.87250°N 21.25306°E / 44.87250; 21.25306
Country Serbia
Province Vojvodina
DistrictSouth Banat
Municipality Bela Crkva
Elevation166 m (545 ft)
Population
 • Kruščica989
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code+381(0)13
Car platesVŠ

Kruščica (Serbian Cyrillic: Крушчица) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bela Crkva municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (71.38%) with a sizable Czech minority (23.35%) and a population of 989 people, according to the 2002 census.

Name

Names in other languages: Czech: Kruščice, German: Kruschtschitz, Hungarian: Körtéd.

Czech minority

The first Czechs appeared in Kruščica in 1834. Settlers from the first wave of Czech immigrants came from Czech settlement villages in the mountains of the Romanian Banat – from Gârnic, Ravensca, Șumița and Bigăr. Subsequently, Czechs also started moving to Kruščica directly from the Czech lands, mostly from central and south-western Bohemia. Currently (2022), the Czech association in Kruščica operates in the village, which also manages the local Czech cultural house. In the past, there was a Czech school in Kruščica (it closed in 1964), today Czech language is taught by a teacher sent by the Foreign Cooperation House (of course, he also works in other Czech settlements of the Serbian Banat). The Czechs there are mostly Roman Catholic, in 1912 they were behind the building of the Church of St. Wenceslas, in which mass is celebrated in Czech to this day.

Historical population

  • 1961: 1,738
  • 1971: 1,478
  • 1981: 1,279
  • 1991: 1,185
  • 2002: 989

Gallery

  • The Saint Wenceslaus Archduke Catholic Church. The Saint Wenceslaus Archduke Catholic Church.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kokaisl, Petr. Krajané: Po stopách Čechů ve východní Evropě [Countrymen: Following the footsteps of the Czechs in Eastern Europe]. Praha: Za hranice. p. 271.
  2. "Srbský Banát – Zanikající nebo ožívající česká enkláva?". ethnologist.info (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  3. "Krajané | Czech Embassy in Belgrade". www.mzv.cz. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  4. "Srbský Banát – místo, kde žijí čeští krajané a působí český učitel : Migrace Online". migraceonline.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  5. solidpixels. "Český Banát v Srbsku". VisitBanat.com (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  • Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

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Cities, towns and villages in the South Banat District
Pančevo
Alibunar
Bela Crkva
Vršac
Kovačica
Kovin
Opovo
Plandište
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