District of Velika Kikinda
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The District of Velika Kikinda (Serbian: Velikokikindski privilegovani dištrikt or Великокикиндски привилеговани диштрикт) was an administrative unit of the Habsburg Monarchy between 1774 and 1876. It was an autonomous area mainly inhabited by ethnic Serbs.
Contents |
[edit] History
It was formed on November 12, 1774, by the decision of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, through the special charter, as the specific feudal governmental administrative unit with headquarters in Velika Kikinda (now Kikinda).
Inhabitants of the District had, for that period, substantial economic, and even political privileges within the Habsburg Monarchy.
The District functioned, with some interruptions, until 1876 when it was abolished, and its territory was allocated both organizationally and administratively to the direct authority of the Torontal County with the headquarters in Veliki Bečkerek (today Zrenjanin), which covered most of the territory of the present-day Serbian Banat.
[edit] Places
Besides Velika Kikinda, the district included another nine settlements of the Serb border military establishments in North and Central Banat:
- Srpski Krstur
- Jozefovo (today part of Novi Kneževac)
- Mokrin
- Karlovo (today part of Novo Miloševo)
- Bašaid
- Vranjevo (today part of Novi Bečej)
- Melenci
- Kumane
- Taraš
[edit] References
- Jovan M. Pejin, Iz prošlosti Kikinde, Kikinda, 2000.
- Dr Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 2, Novi Sad, 1990.
