Srpski Krstur

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The village of Srpski Krstur
The village of Srpski Krstur

Srpski Krstur (Српски Крстур), also known as Krstur (Крстур), is a village located in Serbia, in the Novi Kneževac municipality of the North Banat District, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,620 people (2002 census).

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[edit] Name

Its name means "the Serb Krstur" (There is also a village of Ruski Krstur in Vojvodina, meaning "the Rusyn Krstur"). The name "Krstur" itself derived from Serbian/Slavic word "krst" ("cross" in English).

In Serbian Cyrillic, the village is known as Српски Крстур, in Serbian Latin and Croatian as Srpski Krstur, and in Hungarian as Ókeresztúr.

[edit] Historical population

  • 1961: 2,415
  • 1971: 2,201
  • 1981: 1,794
  • 1991: 1,552

[edit] References

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

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Coordinates: 46°08′N 20°06′E

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