Aleksa Šantić (village)

Aleksa Šantić
Алекса Шантић
Village
Aleksa Šantić
Coordinates: RS 45°56′N 19°20′E / 45.933°N 19.333°E / 45.933; 19.333
Country  Serbia
Province  Vojvodina
District West Bačka District
Municipality Sombor
Population (2002)
 • Total 2,172
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Aleksa Šantić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Шантић) is a village located in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The population of the village numbering 2,172 people (2002 census) and most of its inhabitants are ethnic Serbs.

Name

The village is named (in 1924) after Aleksa Šantić, a Serb poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Serbian and Croatian, the village is known as Aleksa Šantić (Алекса Шантић), and in Hungarian as Babapuszta, Sári, or Hadikkisfalu.

History

In 1468, settlement named Sáripuszta was mentioned at this location. Present-day village was founded between 1923 and 1926 and was settled by Serb volunteers from World War I. During the Hungarian Axis occupation in World War II, name of the village was changed to Fernbach.

Historical population

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Coordinates: 45°56′N 19°20′E / 45.933°N 19.333°E / 45.933; 19.333

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