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In Serbian and Croatian, the village is known as Rumenka (Руменка), and in Hungarian as Piros [2] or Piross. [3]The story about origin of the name of Rumenka claim that in the early years of existence of the village, the land contained many red flowers and when looked upon from a distance Rumenka looked like a red field.
Rumenka: Руменка village 6,495 Serbs: Orthodox Christianity: Stepanovićevo: ... Former village in Bačka: Degraded to formal settlement status, today part of ...
A landscape from Vojvodina, near the village of Skorenovac. Canal Danube-Tisa-Danube near the village of Rumenka, close to Novi Sad. Lake Ledinci on Fruška Gora.
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
In the 16th century, the village was destroyed and later Ottoman defters mention Gornje Sajlovo as a heath that was inhabited by people, but not in the form of a settlement. In 1554, an Ottoman defter recorded that Sajlovo had three houses that paid taxes, while by 1570, the number of houses that paid taxes had increased to seven.
Bačka (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачка, pronounced [bâːtʃkaː]) or Bácska (pronounced [ˈbaːtʃkɒ]), is a geographical and historical area within the Pannonian Plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east.
The village kept that name until after World War II, when the name was changed to Mladenovo. During the Ottoman rule in the 16th and 17th century, the village of Bukin was mainly inhabited by ethnic Serbs. In 1750 there was a disaster: flood destroyed the village and people moved 1.5 kilometers north and rebuilt the village.
Mileševo (Serbian Cyrillic: Милешево, Hungarian: Kutaspuszta and Drea) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bečej municipality, South Bačka District , Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,118 people (2002 census).