Budisava is a village in Serbia

Serbia

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. It is located in the Novi Sad

Novi Sad

Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....

 urban municipality, in the South Bačka District

South Backa District

South Bačka District is a northern district of Serbia. It lies in the southern part of Bačka and northern part of Syrmia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It has a population of 607,835...

, Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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 province. The village has a Serb

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,825 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian

Serbian language

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, the village is known as Budisava or Будисава, in Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 as Tiszakálmánfalva, in Croatian

Croatian language

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 as Budisava, and in German

German language

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as Waldneudorf.

Population

Besides Serbs (numbering 2,260 people), there is also a sizable Hungarian minority (numbering 1,204 people).

Historical population:

• 1961: 2,476
• 1971: 2,825
• 1981: 3,502
• 1991: 3,685

External links

• www.budisava.net
• Kratak opis Budisave (Serbian)
• A Vajdaság települései és címerei - Tiszakálmánfalva (in Hungarian)