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.
Kruščica
Крушчица | |
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  Kruščica Location of Kruščica within Serbia  Kruščica Kruščica (Serbia)  Kruščica Kruščica (Europe) | |
| Coordinates: 44°52′21″N 21°15′11″E / 44.87250°N 21.25306°E | |
| Country |  Serbia |
| Province |  Vojvodina |
| District | South Banat |
| Municipality |  Bela Crkva |
| Elevation | 166 m (545 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Kruščica | 989 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +381(0)13 |
| Car plates | VŠ |
Name
editNames in other languages: Czech: Kruščice, German: Kruschtschitz, Hungarian: Körtéd.
Czech minority
editThe 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.[1] Currently (2022), the Czech association in Kruščica operates in the village, which also manages the local Czech cultural house.[2] 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).[3][4] The Czechs there are mostly Roman Catholic, in 1912 they were behind the building of the Church of St. Wenceslas,[1] in which mass is celebrated in Czech to this day.[5]
Historical population
edit- 1961: 1,738
- 1971: 1,478
- 1981: 1,279
- 1991: 1,185
- 2002: 989
Gallery
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The Saint Wenceslaus Archduke Catholic Church.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Kokaisl, Petr. Krajané: Po stopách Čechů ve východní Evropě [Countrymen: Following the footsteps of the Czechs in Eastern Europe]. Praha: Za hranice. p. 271.
- ^ "Srbský Banát – Zanikající nebo ožívající česká enkláva?". ethnologist.info (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ "Krajané | Czech Embassy in Belgrade". www.mzv.cz. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ "Srbský Banát – místo, kde žijí čeští krajané a působí český učitel : Migrace Online". migraceonline.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ solidpixels. "Český Banát v Srbsku". VisitBanat.com (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links
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