Ečka
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Ečka (Ечка) 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 4,513 people (2002 census).
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[edit] Name and history
In Serbian, the village is known as Ečka (Ечка), in Romanian as Ecica Română, in Croatian as Ečka, in German as Deutsch-Etschka, and in Hungarian as Écska (until 1899: Német-Écska).
The village was merged with former settlement known as Mala Ečka (Мала Ечка) in Serbian, Alt Etschka in German, and Román-Écska or Olahécska in Hungarian.
[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)
- Serbs = 2,483 (55.02%)
- Romanians = 1,325 (29.36%)
- Hungarians = 196 (4.34%)
- Yugoslavs = 123 (2.73%)
- Roma = 72 (1.60%)
[edit] Historical population
- 1900: 4,892
- 1931: 5,207
- 1948: 3,934
- 1953: 4,188
- 1961: 4,323
- 1971: 4,621
- 1981: 5,293
- 1991: 5,172
[edit] Trivia
- Franz Liszt played piano at Kaštel castle as a nine-year-old boy.
[edit] References
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
- Msgr. Erős Lajos, Adalékok a Zrenjanini-Nagybecskereki Egyházmegye történetéhez, 1993. (Additamenta ad historiam Diocesis Zrenjaninensis-Nagybecskerekensis)
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[edit] Additional Pictures
 The Serbian Orthodox Church, the oldest church in Ečka, built in 1711 |
 The Romanian Orthodox Church |
 Main street and the Catholic Church |
 The Catholic Church |
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