Ečka

Ečka

Ečka

Village in Vojvodina, Serbia


Ečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Ечка, pronounced [êtʃka]; Hungarian: Écska) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

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Name and history

In Serbian, the village is known as Ečka (Ечка), in Romanian as Ecica or Ecica Română, in German as Deutsch-Etschka, and in Hungarian as Écska (until 1899: Német-Écska).

The village was merged with former settlement known as Mala Ečka (Мала Ечка) in Serbian, Alt Etschka in German, and Román-Écska or Olahécska in Hungarian.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,513 people (2002 census).

Historical population

  • 1900: 4,892
  • 1931: 5,207
  • 1948: 3,934
  • 1953: 4,188
  • 1961: 4,323
  • 1971: 4,621
  • 1981: 5,293
  • 1991: 5,172

Trivia

  • Franz Liszt played piano at Kaštel castle as a nine-year-old boy.

See also

References

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

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