Krajišnik is a village in Serbia

Serbia

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. It is situated in the Sečanj

Secanj

Sečanj is a village and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 2,645, while the Sečanj municipality has 16,298 inhabitants.-Name:...

 municipality, Central Banat District

Central Banat District

Central Banat District is a northeastern district of Serbia. It lies in the region of Banat, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It has a population of 208,456...

, Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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 province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,241 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian

Serbian language

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, the village is known as Krajišnik or Крајишник, in German

German language

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 as Stefansfeld, in Hungarian

Hungarian language

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 as Istvánfölde (until 1890 Stefanföld), and in Croatian

Croatian language

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 as Krajišnik. The name is derived from the word Krajina

Krajina

-Etymology:In old-Croatian, this earliest geographical term appeared at least from 10th century within the Glagolitic inscriptions in Chakavian dialect, e.g. in Baška tablet about 1105, and also in some subsequent Glagolitic texts as krayna in the original medieval meaning of inlands or mainlands...

, and means "a resident of Krajina".

Its former name used in Serbian was Šupljaja / Шупљаја. This name is found in the records since 1660.

Historical population

• 1869: 2,329
• 1900: 2,344
• 1948: 3,926
• 1953: 3,733
• 1961: 3,357
• 1971: 2,712
• 1981: 2,495
• 1991: 2,428