Molin (

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: Молин) was a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

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. The village was founded in 1832 and existed until 1961. It was located in the

Nova Crnja Nova Crnja ( sr-Cyrl, Нова Црња; , ; , ) is a village and municipality located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 1,007, while the municipality has 8,147 inhabita ...

Municipality,

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Province. The village was abandoned because of

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. Today the location of the former village is Molin Forest, which is used as a hunting ground.

Name

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the village is known as ''Molin'' (Молин), in

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as ''Mollydorf'', and in Hungarian as ''Mollyfalva''.

Geography

Molin was located at 45°38'37N and 20°32'21E, between Aleksandrovo,

Banatsko Karađorđevo Banatsko Karađorđevo (; ) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Žitište municipality, Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The population of the village numbering 2,508 people (2002 census), of whom 2,398 (95.61%) are ethnic Se ...

, Torda,

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, and

. Today, the area of the former Molin village administratively belongs to the settlement of

History

It was founded during Austrian Habsburg administration (in 1832) by

settlers. First census from 1836 registered 558 inhabitants in the village. The village was administratively a part of the Torontal County within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. In 1848-1849, the village was part of autonomous

Serbian Vojvodina The Serbian Vojvodina () was a short-lived self-proclaimed autonomous province within the Austrian Empire during the Revolutions of 1848, which existed until 1849 when it was transformed into the new (official) Austrian province named Voivodes ...

, and in 1849-1860 it was part of the

Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar The Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, or Voivodeship of Serbia and Temes Banat (, , , ), was a crownland of the Austrian Empire that existed between 1849 and 1861, centered in Temeschwar. It was created by reorganization of admini ...

, a separate Austrian land. After the abolishment of the voivodeship in 1860, the village was again included into Torontal County. It was also part of the

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district within the county. In 1910, the village had German ethnic majority. In 1918, 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, the village firstly became part of the

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and then part of the

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(later renamed to

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). From 1918 to 1922 Molin was part of the

Veliki Bečkerek Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; ; ; ; ) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 67,129 inhabitants, while the city a ...

county, from 1922 to 1929 part of the

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oblast, and from 1929 to 1941 part of the

Danube Banovina Danube Banovina or Danube Banate ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Dunavska banovina, Дунавска бановина), was a banovina (or province) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of the geographical ...

. During the

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occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1944, the village was part of the German-administered

region that had special status within the Axis puppet state of

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. At the end of

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, in 1944, one part of local German inhabitants left from the area, together with defeated German army. Those who remained in the region were sent to local communist prison camps, and one of these camps was located in Molin.Molidorf History
/ref> After communist prison camps were dissolved (in 1948), most of the remaining German population left Yugoslavia mainly because of economic reasons. Since 1944, the village was part of Yugoslav

, which, from 1945, was an autonomous province of new socialist

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within Yugoslavia. After the war, the village was populated by settlers who mostly came from neighboring settlements. According to the 1953 census, Molin had a

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ethnic majority. In 1956, the village was devastated by catastrophic flood and was resettled and abandoned in the following year. Most of the residents moved to nearby settlements of

and

Vojvoda Stepa Vojvoda Stepa ( sr-cyr, Војвода Степа) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Nova Crnja municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The population of the village numbering 1,720 people (2002 census), of w ...

. Today, there is a Molin Forest on the location where Molin village once was.

Historical population of the village

*1869: 794 *1880: 783 *1890: 936 *1900: 1,202 *1910: 1,060 *1921: 1,272 *1931: 1,203 *1948: 423 *1953: 1,121

References

External links

Bagerima teraju vodu iz kuća - Vesti.rs
(in Serbian)
Voda dolazi, kuće tonu - Glas javnosti
(in Serbian)
Molin location map

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Name

Geography

History

Historical population of the village

See also

References

Further reading

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