- Prigrevica
Prigrevica (Пригревица) is a village located in the
Apatin municipality, in theWest Bačka District ofSerbia . In German it is known as Batschsentiwan or Sankt Johann an der Schanze. Saint John the Baptist is the patron of Prigrevica Sveti Ivan. In 1947, the name was changed to shorter form Prigrevica. It is situated in the Autonomous Province ofVojvodina . The village is located 9km east from Apatin. Population of Prigrevica counts about 4,783 people, mostly ethnicSerbs .History
The village was founded about 600 years ago. In the end of the 17th century it became part of the Habsburg Monarchy. A new wave of colonisation occurred in 1748 when many German colonists settled in Prigrevica. The colonists came from many different regions in southern Germany and East France. The gathering centre was in Ulm, Germany and from that point they were transported by the Danube to Apatin, which became the main base of the German expansion in Vojvodina. When the Yugoslav Partisans came on October 24, 1944, they liberated Prigrevica from Axis occupation. The antifascist council for deliberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) declared its mainly German population as public enemies. Also in Prigrevica the German civil population became victim of excessive revenge of the partisans. They were partially shot, tortured to death or sent to one of several concentration camps that existed until 1948.
After the
Second World War , Prigrevica was settled by colonists who mostly originated fromLika andBanija .Ethnic groups (2002 census)
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Serbs = 4,569 (95.57%)
*Croats = 50 (1.05%)
*Yugoslavs = 29 (0.61%)
*Hungarians = 21 (0.44%)
*others.Historical population
*1948: 5,219
*1953: 5,480
*1961: 5,449
*1971: 5,033
*1981: 5,026
*1991: 4,842
*2002: 4,781Culture
Cultural-artistic society "KUD Prigrevica" was founded in 1996 and it has about 100 members who are active in different sections of the society.
Famous people
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Željko Rebrača , a professional basketball player in theNBA . He was born in Prigrevica in 1972.References
*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
ee also
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List of places in Serbia
*List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina External links
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/YI/2/Prigrevica.html Prigrevica]
* [http://www.prigrevica.com/ www.prigrevica.com]
* [http://radio.prigrevica.com/ www.radio.prigrevica.com]
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