Dupljaja is a village in Serbia

Serbia

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. It is situated in the Bela Crkva

Bela Crkva (Vojvodina)

Bela Crkva is a town and municipality in the South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 10,638, while the Bela Crkva municipality has 20,275 inhabitants....

 municipality, in the South Banat District

South Banat District

South Banat District is a northeastern district of Serbia with the seat of the district in Pančevo. It borders Romania to the east. The district lies in the region of Banat, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina...

, Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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 province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 854 people (2002 census).

History and archaeology

The archaeologists have found at this location the remains of old Slavic city Karaš, which was the capital and the largest fort of Banat

Banat

The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania , the western part in northeastern Serbia , and a small...

 in the 11th century. The remains include part of old church and part of the building which supposedly was the palace of the prince, as well as several hundred coins that originated from central and western Europe

Europe

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 and pieces of golden and silver jewles. http://www.dnevnik.rs/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12711

There are also remains from Prehistory

Prehistory

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 and from the Bronze Age

Bronze Age

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 (mostly belonging to the Dubovac culture). Famous archaeological Bronze Age artifacts from Dupljaja are so-called "Dupljajska kolica" ("the carts from Dupljaja" in English), which are about 3,500 years old. http://www.dnevnik.rs/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12711

In 1921, the population of Dupljaja included 1,149 Serbs

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...

, 19 Romanians

Romanians

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, 10 Slovaks

Slovaks

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, 10 Germans

Germans

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, and 2 Hungarians.

External links

• Map of the Bela Crkva municipality showing the location of Dupljaja