- Banatska Topola
Banatska Topola (Банатска Топола) is a village in the
Kikinda municipality, in theNorth Banat District of the Republic ofSerbia . It is situated in the Autonomous Province ofVojvodina . The village has a population of 1,066 of which 570 (53.47%) are ethnicSerbs and 434 (40.71%) are ethnic Hungarians. The location of the village is 18 kilometers south of the city ofKikinda . Administrativelly, the settlement namedVincaid is also classified as part of Banatska Topola.Name
In Serbian, the village is known as Банатска Топола or "Banatska Topola", in Hungarian as "Töröktopolya", and in German as "Banat Topola".
History
The present-day village was founded more than 200 years ago. However, numerous archeological findings point to the existence of a human presence in the late
Bronze Age , around 1200 B.C. Accidental findings ofBronze Age tools are kept in theKikinda National Museum. Other findings provide evidence of the presence ofSarmatians in later periods.During the
Middle Ages there were many settlements in the area of the present-day village. However, up to the end of the 18th century, the land in this area was composed of wetlands andfen s. In 1783, the land was bought by Count Bogdan Karácsony from neighbouringNovo Miloševo , who then started the process of drying up the wetlands. Around 1790, he founded the village in the middle of these wetlands, which he settled with German and Hungarian families. ARoman Catholic church was built in 1899.Serb ian families from Bosnia settled the village in 1946, afterWorld War II .Historical population
*1948: 1,255
*1953: 1,029
*1961: 1,101
*1971: 1,848
*1981: 1,463
*1991: 1,176
*2002: 1,066ee also
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List of places in Serbia
*List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina External links
* [http://www.banatskatopola.edu.yu Primary School "Bratstvo-Jedinstvo"]
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