Svetozar Miletić (Sombor)

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Светозар Милетић
Nemesmilitics
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Svetozar Miletić (Serbian: "Светозар Милетић", Hungarian: "Nemesmilitics", Croatian also known under its old name: "Lemeš") is a village in Bačka region in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 3,169 people (2002 census).

Name

The village was named after Svetozar Miletić, a political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina from second half of 19th century.

In Serbian, the village is known as "Svetozar Miletić" (Светозар Милетић), in Croatian as "Lemeš", in German as "Berauersheim", and in Hungarian as "Nemesmillitics". Before 1925, in Serbian the name "Lemeš" was used for the village.

The origin of the villagename in Hungarian and Croatian comes from the Hungarian word "nemes" ("a noble"), while for the word "militics" it is believed that it comes from Latin "militis" ("a soldier"). Local Croats of Bunjevci group have shortened and transformed the name "Nemesmilitics" into "Lemeš", and later Slavic settlers accepted that name.
When new ruler came, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, ruled by Serbs, the villagename was changed. In 1925, it was changed into "Svetozar Miletić", after the Serb political leader.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census, ethnic groups in the village included:
*Hungarians = 1,455 (45.91%)
*Croats = 581 (18.33%) (*)
*Serbs = 549 (17.32%) (*)
*Bunjevci = 217 (6.85%) (*)
*Yugoslavs = 149 (4.70%) (*)
*others.

(*) Total number of South Slavs (Croats, Serbs, Bunjevci, Yugoslavs) that live in the village is 1,496 (47.21%).

Historical population

*1961: 3,990
*1971: 3,860
*1981: 3,685
*1991: 3,292
*2002: 3,169

Famous persons

*Gaja Alaga (1924-1988), Croatian theoretical physicist
*Mirko Vidaković (1924-2002), Croatian botanist

References

*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/YI/2/Svetozar_Miletic.html Svetozar Miletić]