Mošorin
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Mošorin is a village in Serbia
Serbia
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. It is located in the Titel
Titel
Titel is a town and municipality in the South Bačka District of the Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Titel has a population of 5,831, while the population of the municipality of Titel is 16,936...

 municipality, 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...

. Mošorin is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Vojvodina
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, in the south-eastern part of Bačka
Backa
Bačka is a geographical area within the Pannonian plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east of which confluence is located near Titel...

, known as Šajkaška
Šajkaška
Šajkaška is a geographical region in Serbia. It is southeastern part of Bačka, located in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Territory of Šajkaška is divided among four municipalities: Titel, Žabalj, Novi Sad, and Srbobran. Historical center of Šajkaška is Titel.-Name:Name Šajkaška means "land...

. The village has a Serb
Serbs
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 ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,763 people (2002 census).

History

The village was first time mentioned in the 16th century. During the Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 rule (16th-17th century), it was populated by ethnic Serbs
Serbs
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. Since 1699, it was under Habsburg
Habsburg Monarchy
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 rule and was part of the Habsburg Military Frontier
Military Frontier
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 (Šajkaš Battalion
Šajkaška
Šajkaška is a geographical region in Serbia. It is southeastern part of Bačka, located in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Territory of Šajkaška is divided among four municipalities: Titel, Žabalj, Novi Sad, and Srbobran. Historical center of Šajkaška is Titel.-Name:Name Šajkaška means "land...

). In 1848-1849, Mošorin was part of the Serbian Vojvodina
Serbian Vojvodina
The Serbian Vojvodina was a Serbian autonomous region within the Austrian Empire...

, a Serb autonomous region within Austrian Empire
Austrian Empire
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, but since 1849, it is again part of the Military Frontier, until 1873 when it was included into Bačka-Bodrog county
Bács-Bodrog
Bács-Bodrog County was the administrative county of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary from 18th century to 1918. Its territory is currently in northern Serbia and southern Hungary. The capital of the county was Zombor .-Name:The county was named after two older counties: Bács and Bodrog...

.

Since 1918, Mošorin is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...

). Between 1918 and 1922 it was part of Bačka
Backa
Bačka is a geographical area within the Pannonian plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east of which confluence is located near Titel...

 county, between 1922 and 1929 part of Belgrade
Belgrade
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 oblast, and between 1929 and 1941 part of the Danube Banovina
Danube Banovina
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.

In 1941, the village was occupied by Axis
Axis Powers
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 troops and attached to Horthy's Hungary
Hungary
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. In the 1942 raid, performed on Orthodox
Eastern Orthodox Church
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 Christmas
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, the Hungarian troops killed 205 villagers, including 94 men, 41 women, 44 children and 26 old persons, of whom 170 were Serbs
Serbs
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, 34 Roma, and 1 Hungarian. Part of the corpses of the killed villagers was thrown into the iced waters of the river Tisa
Tisá
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, while other part was buried into four mass grave
Mass grave
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s.

Axis occupation ended in 1944. Since then Mošorin was part of the new Socialist Yugoslavia. Between 1992 and 2003 it was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, between 2003 and 2006 part of Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro
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, and since 2006, it is part of an independent Serbia
Serbia
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.

Historical population

  • 1869: 2,214
  • 1880: 2,394
  • 1910: 3,606
  • 1921: 3,632
  • 1931: 3,854
  • 1961: 2,906
  • 1971: 2,694
  • 1981: 2,483
  • 1991: 2,552
  • 2002: 2,763

Famous people from Mošorin

  • Ilija Kolarić,the most famous Serbian painter.He was born in 1927 and he died in 2003.

  • Svetozar Miletić
    Svetozar Miletic
    Svetozar Miletić was an advocate, politician, mayor of Novi Sad, and the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina. He was the oldest of seven children born to Sima and Teodosija Miletić in the village of Mošorin in Šajkaška, the Serbian Military Frontier, on February 22, 1826...

     (1826–1901), the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina.
  • Isidora Sekulić
    Isidora Sekulic
    Isidora Sekulić was a famous Serbian prose writer, novelist, essayist, adventurer, polyglot and art critic....

     (1877–1958), a famous Serb literate, academician.
  • Dušan Kanazir (born in 1921), biologist, academician, and president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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     (1981–1994).
  • Mladen Dražetin (born in 1951), a literate and theatrical creator.

  • Svetozar T. Vlaškalić, an Orthodox priest.

Family names of the villagers

Some prominent families in the village include: Bačkalić, Banjac, Bedov, Bugarin, Vlaškalić, Dimitrov
Dimitrov
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, Dražeta
Dražeta
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, Dudarin, Đurđević, Etinski, Jelovac
Jelovac
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, Jovanović
Jovanovic
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, Jurišin, Kanazir, Karanov, Kirćan, Kozarev, Kolarić
Kolarić
Kolarić is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D216 highway....


, Krunić, Kuruca, Maletin
Maletín
Maletín is a village and municipality in Šumperk District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 361 ....

, Marjanov, Marić
Maric
Marić is a South Slavic surname. It is the fourth most common surname in Croatia .It may refer to:*Alisa Marić, Serbian-American chess grandmaster*Aleksandar Marić, Australian basketball player of Serbian descent...

, Miletić
Miletić
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, Milnović, Mirosavljev, Pantelemonov, Petakov, Požarev, Rakić
Rakic
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, Ranisavljev, Savin
Savin
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, Svirčev, Sekulić, Stanojev, Subotin, Suzić, Tubić, Nestorović, etc.

See also

  • Titel
    Titel
    Titel is a town and municipality in the South Bačka District of the Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Titel has a population of 5,831, while the population of the municipality of Titel is 16,936...

  • Šajkaška
    Šajkaška
    Šajkaška is a geographical region in Serbia. It is southeastern part of Bačka, located in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Territory of Šajkaška is divided among four municipalities: Titel, Žabalj, Novi Sad, and Srbobran. Historical center of Šajkaška is Titel.-Name:Name Šajkaška means "land...

  • 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...

  • Bačka
    Backa
    Bačka is a geographical area within the Pannonian plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east of which confluence is located near Titel...

  • Vojvodina
    Vojvodina
    Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

  • List of places in Serbia
  • List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

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