Lazarevo
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Lazarevo (Лазарево) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,308 people (2002 census).
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[edit] Name
In Serbian, the village is known as Lazarevo or Лазарево, in Croatian as Lazarevo, in Hungarian as Lázárföld, and in German as Lazarfeld.
[edit] History
In the year 1800, the first German immigrants arrived at the enormous estate of Lazar Janoš, the son of Lazar Lukač. “Martinica pusta” has been determined as a place for their settlement. It was besides Ečka and Jankov Most the third settlement founded on Lazar Lukač’s estate and in his honor it was named Lazarfield. In 1922 the village changed it’s name to Lazarevo. After the World War II it was colonized by veteran families from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[edit] Historical population
- 1961: 3,313
- 1971: 3,430
- 1981: 3,480
- 1991: 3,450
[edit] Features
There are around 3,000 inhabitants in about 900 households. The working people are mostly employed in Zrenjanin, and agriculture is their supplement activity. The local population mostly assembled by the cultural society “Slaviša Vajner – Cica”, the volunteer fire Society, and the hunters associations. The local Protestant church was reconstructed and turned into the first Orthodox church in 1998. Under the name “Zadrugar” four sports clubs exist, and it’s football team gave a few Yugoslav representatives.
[edit] References
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
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