Mošorin

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Main street and the Orthodox church

Map of the Titel municipality and Šajkaška region, showing the location of Mošorin

Mošorin (Мошорин) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Titel municipality, South Bačka District. Mošorin is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the south-eastern part of Bačka, known as Šajkaška. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,745 people (2002 census).

1 History
2 Population
3 Famous people from Mošorin
4 Family names of the villagers
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

The village was first time mentioned in the 16th century. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), it was populated by ethnic Serbs. Since 1699, it was under Habsburg rule and was part of the Habsburg Military Frontier (Šajkaš Battalion). In 1848-1849, Mošorin was part of the Serbian Vojvodina, a Serb autonomous region within Austrian Empire, but since 1849, it is again part of the Military Frontier, until 1873 when it was included into Bačka-Bodrog county.

Since 1918, Mošorin is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia). Between 1918 and 1922 it was part of Bačka county, between 1922 and 1929 part of Belgrade oblast, and between 1929 and 1941 part of the Danube Banovina.

In 1941, the village was occupied by Axis troops and attached to Horthy's Hungary. In the 1942 raid, performed on Orthodox Christmass, the Hungarian troops killed 205 villagers, including 94 men, 41 women, 44 children and 26 old persons, of whom 170 were Serbs, 34 Roma, and 1 Hungarian. Part of the corpses of the killed villagers was thrown into the iced waters of the river Tisa, while other part was buried into four mass graves.

Axis occupation ended in 1944, and since then Mošorin was part of the new Socialist Yugoslavia. Between 1992 and 2003 it was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, between 2003 and 2006 part of Serbia and Montenegro, and since 2006, it is part of an independent Serbia.

[edit] Population

1880: 2,394
1910: 3,606
1921: 3,630
2002: 2,745

[edit] Famous people from Mošorin

Svetozar Miletić (1826-1901)

Svetozar Miletić (1826-1901), the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina.
Isidora Sekulić (1877-1958), a famous Serb literate, academician.
Dušan Kanazir (born in 1921), biologist, academician, and president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1981-1994).
Mladen Dražetin (born in 1951), a literate and theatrical creator.
Ilija Kolarić, a painter.
Svetozar T. Vlaškalić, a Orthodox priest.

[edit] Family names of the villagers

Some prominent families in the village include: Banjac, Bedov, Bugarin, Vlaškalić, Dimitrov, Dražeta, Đurđević, Etinski, Jelovac, Jovanović, Jurišin, Kanazir, Karanov, Kirćan, Kozarev, Kolarić, Krunić, Kuruca, Maletin, Marjanov, Marić, Miletić, Mirosavljev, Petakov, Požarev, Rakić, Ranisavljev, Savin, Svirčev, Sekulić, Stanojev, Subotin, Suzić, Tubić, Nestorović, etc.