Lovćenac

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Lovćenac (Ловћенац) is a village located in the Mali Iđoš municipality, in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a Montenegrin ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,693 people (2002 census).

Contents 1 Name 2 Ethnic groups 2.1 1971 2.2 2002 3 History 4 Historical population 5 Culture 6 References 7 See also 8 Gallery 9 External links

[edit] Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Lovćenac (Ловћенац), in German as Sekitsch (in the past rarely Winkelsberg), and in Hungarian as Szeghegy.

Its former name in Serbian was Sekić (Секић). After the World War II, the village was named Lovćenac by the Montenegrin settlers after Mount Lovćen in Montenegro.

The original Hungarian name of the village was Szeghegy, but Hungarians also used Serbian version of the name in the forms Szikics and Szekics, as well as Germans in the form Sekitsch. One very rare alternative German name was Winkelsberg.

[edit] Ethnic groups

[edit] 1971

According to the 1971 census, ethnic Montenegrins comprised 70.91% of population of the village.

[edit] 2002

According to the 2002 census, the population of the village numbered 3,693 people, including:

• 2,100 (56.86%) Montenegrins
• 1,242 (33.63%) Serbs
• 107 (2.90%) Hungarians
• others.

[edit] History

The village first appeared in history in 1476. During the Ottoman rule, the village of Sekić was populated by ethnic Serbs. The ethnic Germans settled there in 1786. These German settlers, originally from all over, came to be a distinct group known as Vojvodina Germans (Wojwodinedeutsche), a branch of the Danube Swabians since 1920. At its peak, the village had a population of about 6,000 people, mostly Germans. After the World War II, Germans fled from the village, and it was then populated with settlers from Montenegro, who now form a majority of the population. Hungarians formed and still form the majority in neighbouring Feketić and in the larger village of Mali Iđoš.

[edit] Historical population

• 1961: 4,800
• 1971: 4,159
• 1981: 4,016
• 1991: 4,049

[edit] Culture

The society of Montenegrins in Serbia known as "Krstaš" is based in Lovćenac.

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• Montenegrins of Vojvodina
• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

[edit] Gallery

An intersection on the main road in Lovćenac today.	German-language memorial for soldiers who died in World War I in Sekić (Lovćenac), Vojvodina	This memorial, referred to as "de Steen", was erected in 1895 to commemorate those who died in the 1849 battle near Sekić (Lovćenac) between the Croats (led by Jelačić) and the Magyars (led by Guyon).	This emblem, commonly featured on books about the German diaspora from Lovćenac, gives the dates of their habitation.
Sekić got its first post office in 1872.

[edit] External links

• Talanti Lovcenac
• Lovćenac
• Krstaš
• Mi smo Crnogorci, sa azbukom od 33 slova, Glas javnosti, 5 February 2006 (about Montenegrins of the village)
• Sekitsch.de - Village homepage (by German Danube Swabians of the village)
• DVHH - Sekitsch - Village homepage (by US-based Danube Swabian diaspora of the village)

v • d • e Cities, towns and villages in the North Bačka District Subotica: Bajmok • Bački Vinogradi • Bačko Dušanovo • Bikovo • Višnjevac • Gornji Tavankut • Donji Tavankut • Đurđin • Kelebija • Ljutovo • Mala Bosna • Mišićevo • Novi Žednik • Palić • Stari Žednik • Hajdukovo • Čantavir • Šupljak Bačka Topola: Bagremovo • Bajša • Bački Sokolac • Bogaraš • Gornja Rogatica • Gunaroš • Zobnatica • Kavilo • Karađorđevo • Krivaja • Mali Beograd • Mićunovo • Novo Orahovo • Njegoševo • Obornjača • Tomislavci • Panonija • Pačir • Pobeda • Svetićevo • Srednji Salaš • Stara Moravica Mali Iđoš: Lovćenac • Feketić (*) bold are municipalities

Coordinates: 45°41′N, 19°41′E