Crvenka

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Also see: Crvenka (disambiguation)
Црвенка
Crvenka
Country: Flag of Serbia Serbia
Subdivision: Vojvodina, West Bačka District, Kula municipality
Location:  ?
Population:
2002

10,153
Area code: + 381(0)25
Postal code: 25220
License plates:  ?
Building in the centre of the town. The razed Evangelical church stood here until the end of the 1940s.
Building in the centre of the town. The razed Evangelical church stood here until the end of the 1940s.
Heart of Jesus Catholic Church.
Heart of Jesus Catholic Church.

Crvenka (Црвенка) is a town located in the Kula municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. In 2002, the population of the town numbered 10,153 people. The majority of the inhabitants of the town are ethnic Serbs.

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[edit] Name

In Serbian, the town is known as Crvenka or Црвенка, in Croatian as Crvenka, in Hungarian as Cservenka, and in German as Tscherwenka or Rotweil.

Name of the town derived from the Serbian word "crven" ("red" in English).

[edit] Historical population

  • 1948: 6,879
  • 1953: 7,797
  • 1961: 9,369
  • 1971: 10,098
  • 1981: 10,629
  • 1991: 10,409

[edit] Politics

There is an initiative among inhabitants of Crvenka that this settlement become its own municipality completelly separate from Kula.

[edit] References

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

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