Šajkaš () is a
village
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located in the
Titel
Titel ( sr-Cyrl, Тител, hu, Titel) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Titel has a population of 5,247, while the population of the municipality of Titel is 15, ...
municipality,
South Bačka District
The South Bačka District ( sr, Јужнобачки округ, Južnobački okrug, ; hu, Dél-bácskai körzet; ) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Geographically it lies in the southern ...
,
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 capital ...
, Serbia. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 4,374 inhabitants.
Name
In
Serbian
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* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
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* Old Serbian (disambiguation ...
the village is known as ''Šajkaš'' (Шајкаш), in
Croatian as ''Šajkaš'', in
Hungarian as ''Sajkásszentiván'', and in
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
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* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ge ...
as ''Schatzdorf'' or ''Schajkasch-Sentiwan''.
History
The Šajkaška district was the scene of a notorious massacre during the occupation of Bačka by the Hungarian army in January 1942. This cost almost 900 lives. The German minority left the village in 1944.
Demographics
As of 2011 census, the village of Šajkaš has a population of 4,374 inhabitants.
See also
*
List of places in Serbia
This is the list of populated places in Serbia (excluding Kosovo), as recorded by the 2002 census, sorted alphabetically by municipalities. Settlements denoted as " urban" (towns and cities) are marked bold. Population for every settlement is gi ...
*
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References
* Slobodan Ćurčić: ''Broj stanovnika Vojvodine'' (Novi Sad, 1996).
External links
Places in Bačka
South Bačka District
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