Trešnjevac
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Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. It is situated in the Kanjiža
Kanjiža
Kanjiža is a town and municipality in the North Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia...
municipality, in the North Banat District
North Banat District
North Banat District is a northern district of Serbia. It lies in the regions of Banat and Bačka, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. As of the 2002 census, the district has a population of 165,881. The seat of the district is Kikinda....
, Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,868 people (2002 census).
History
Human communities have lived in this area as early as in the stone ageStone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
. The first written record about the settlement is from 1271. The record mention it under the name Fel-Adrian. Modern Trešnjevac was founded around the 1850s.
Historical population
- 1961: 2,357
- 1971: 2,304
- 1981: 2,135
- 1991: 2,028
- 2002: 1,868
- 2011: 1,763
Features
The inhabitants of the village are mostly farmers; sheep breeding is one of the characteristic features of Trešnjevac.Politics
During the Bosnian WarBosnian War
The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...
, the Zitzer Club (Zitzer Spiritual Republic) was an important gathering place for those, who resisted the ongoing war. The foreign media paid special attention to it.
Cultural life
Gazdag Ág, organized in Trešnjevac, is one of the most important folk events in the municipality. It is a competition between folk organizations. The aim of the event is to give platform to the rich cultural heritage of ethnic HungarianHungarians in Vojvodina
Hungarians are the second largest ethnic group in the Vojvodina province in northern Serbia. According to the 2002 census, there are 290,207 ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina who compose 14.28% of the provincial population. The number of ethnic Hungarians in the whole of Serbia is 293,299, and their...
villages in the region. The German Filmmakers Marc Haenecke and Michael Leuthner shot a full feature length documentary about the zitzer club, which was broadcasted on German TV and was showed on several filmfestivals.