Veliko Središte
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Veliko Središte is a village
Village
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 in Serbia
Serbia
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. It is situated in the Vršac
Vršac
Vršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...

 municipality
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, 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 1,269 people (2011 census). There is a considerable number of ethnic Hungarians, Romanians and other minorities as well as ethnically mixed families which is not uncommon in Vojvodina.

Name

In Serbian
Serbian language
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, the village is known as Veliko Središte (Велико Средиште), 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 Nagyszered, and in German
German language
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 as Groß-Sredischte.

Historical population

  • 1961: 2,120
  • 1971: 1,815
  • 1981: 1,698
  • 1991: 1,584
  • 2002: 1,340
  • 2011: 1,269

See also

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