Hrtkovci

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Hrtkovci (Хртковци) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Ruma municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,428 people (2002 census).

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[edit] Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Hrtkovci (Хртковци), in Croatian as Hrtkovci, and in Hungarian as Herkóca. Vojislav Šešelj tried to rename the village to Srbislavci (Србиславци) but failed.

[edit] History

Before the Croatian War of Independence, the largest ethnic group in Hrtkovci were Croats, while the rest of population were Serbs, Hungarians and Slovaks. During the war, Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Šešelj came to the town and delivered a speech in which he said that there was no place for Croats there.[1] The local branch of the Serbian Radical Party The local party branch then launched a campaign to move the Croats out of the village.[2] Most of the Croats from Hrtkovci moved to Croatia, and settled in the village of Kula near Požega, while many Serb refugees from that place settled in Hrtkovci.

[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)

  • Serbs = 2,396 (69.90%)
  • Hungarians = 310 (9.04%)
  • Croats = 256 (7.47%)
  • Yugoslavs = 67 (1.96%)

[edit] Historical population

  • 1961: 3,265
  • 1971: 3,102
  • 1981: 2,855
  • 1991: 2,684

[edit] References

  • Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
  • Borislav Jankulov, Pregled kolonizacije Vojvodine u XVIII i XIX veku, Novi Sad - Pančevo, 2003.

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Coordinates: 44°53′N, 19°46′E