Markovac ( sr-Cyrl, Марковац; ro, Marcovăț; hu, Márktelke) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the

South Banat District The South Banat District ( sr, Јужнобанатски округ, Južnobanatski okrug, ; hu, Dél-bánsági körzet; ) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The administrative center of ...

of the Autonomous Province of

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capita ...

. The village has a

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ethnic majority. Over the last half a century, the village's population has steadily declined from 1042 in 1961 to less than a quarter of that, 249 people in the 2011 census.

Name

Village is known under several names: sr-Cyrl, Марковац or sr-Latn, Markovac; ro, Marcovăț, hu, Márktelke, german: Markowatz.

Geographical information

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: 29 km² *

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above sea-level: 156 m * Population: 249 *

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: *

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: +381 13 *

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: VŠ

History

12th century BC ornitho-morphic pendants were found in Markovac-Grunjac.http://sehumed.uv.es/revista/numero16/SEHUMED_colecc131.PDF The village was first time recorded in 1749. In that time it was part of the

Banat of Temeswar The Banat of Temeswar or ''Banat of Temes'' was a Habsburg province that existed between 1718 and 1778. It was located in the present day region of Banat, which was named after this province. The province was abolished in 1778 and the follow ...

, which was a separate province of the Habsburg monarchy. According to 1753 data, it was mainly populated by Romanians. In 1778, the Banat of Temeswar was abolished and village was included into Temesch County within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. In 1848-1849, the village was part of autonomous Serbian Vojvodina and in 1849-1860 part of the

Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar , conventional_long_name = Voivodeship of Serbia and Temes Banate , common_name = Serbia and Banat , subdivision = Crownland , nation = the Austrian Empire , year_start = 1849 , date_start = 18 November , year_end = 1860 , date_end = ...

. After the abolition of the voivodeship in 1860, the village was again included into Temesch County. In 1918, following the end of World War I, Markovac (as part of the

Banat, Bačka and Baranja Banat, Bačka and Baranya ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Banat, Bačka i Baranja, Банат, Бачка и Барања) was a province of the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between November 1918 and 1922. It ...

region) became part of the Kingdom of Serbia and subsequently part of the

Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

(known as Yugoslavia since 1929). During World War II, from 1941 to 1944, the German Wehrmacht occupied the village. During this time, the village was part of the

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region, which had special autonomous status within the German-occupied puppet state of Serbia. After World War II, Markovac was included into the new socialist Yugoslavia. Since 1944, it is part of autonomous Yugoslav Vojvodina, which was included into socialist Yugoslav Serbia in 1945. Since 2006, Markovac is part of an independent Serbia.

Ethnic groups

In 2002, the population of Markovac was 329, by self-description 251 Romanians (76%); 33 Serbs (10%); 10 Hungarians; 2 Yugoslavians; 2 Czechs; 2 Croats; 2 Slovenians; 2 Gypsies.

Historical population

*1961: 1,042 *1971: 817 *1981: 717 *1991: 570 *2002: 329 *2011: 249

Notable people

* Romulus Gaita (b 1922 - d May 1996), father of Australian philosopher

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, lived in Markovac until 1935 when at the age of 13 he fled the village * Darien Banda, Famous football player in Sweden

References

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