Perlez (; ) is a village located in the

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; ; ; ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, 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 inh ...

municipality, in the

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. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of

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. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (87.29%) and its population numbering 3,818 people (2002 census). Famous residents: Milan Ponjević (actor).

History

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graves and ceramics (bowls, anthropomorphic urns) were found in the village. The town originally consisted of a hamlet named Siga, next to which a fort called Šanac was built in the early-18th Century. (At the time this was part of the

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frontier with the

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.) In 1752, Count Perlas, president the administration of the

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and treasurer for the province of Timisoara, founded a new village just outside the fort, which he named after himself. Early settlers were Serbs from elsewhere in the region, Germans, Croats, Slovaks and Hungarians, many of whom were employed as border guards. Following the

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the region shifted from Hungarian to Yugoslav administration and the town's name was changed to Perlez, accordingly.

Population

This village had a small community of

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, that lived in compact part of the village; they have been slowly but evidently in large amounts assimilated. Still, this assimilation has never drawn the attention of Croat parties in Serbia. *1961: 4,881 *1971: 4,458 *1981: 4,283 *1991: 3,880

Economy

The "Matić farm", located near the confluence of the Bega into the

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, preserves the old and autochthonous breeds of cattle. It has a small herd of the Podolian cattle and since the mid 2000s, the herd of domesticated

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was formed. Buffalos, descendants of the river buffalo, arrived in the modern Vojvodina region in the 5th century with the

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. Historical records show that they were still being kept in the 15th century, but died out from the region later.

References

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

External links

PerlezInternet Prezentacija Perleza
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080508053052/http://www.freewebs.com/perlez-weather/index.htm Current Weather in Perlezbr> Perlez map and morePerlez infos
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