Mošorin
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Mošorin (Мошорин) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Titel municipality, South Bačka District. Mošorin is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the south-eastern part of Bačka, known as Šajkaška. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,763 people (2002 census).
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[edit] History
The village was first time mentioned in the 16th century. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), it was populated by ethnic Serbs. Since 1699, it was under Habsburg rule and was part of the Habsburg Military Frontier (Šajkaš Battalion). In 1848-1849, Mošorin was part of the Serbian Vojvodina, a Serb autonomous region within Austrian Empire, but since 1849, it is again part of the Military Frontier, until 1873 when it was included into Bačka-Bodrog county.
Since 1918, Mošorin is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia). Between 1918 and 1922 it was part of Bačka county, between 1922 and 1929 part of Belgrade oblast, and between 1929 and 1941 part of the Danube Banovina.
In 1941, the village was occupied by Axis troops and attached to Horthy's Hungary. In the 1942 raid, performed on Orthodox Christmas, the Hungarian troops killed 205 villagers, including 94 men, 41 women, 44 children and 26 old persons, of whom 170 were Serbs, 34 Roma, and 1 Hungarian. Part of the corpses of the killed villagers was thrown into the iced waters of the river Tisa, while other part was buried into four mass graves.
Axis occupation ended in 1944. The partizans performed genocide among ethnic Hungarians and Germans, and those, who survived the massacre, were internated, their possessions were confiscated and they were deportated to concentration camps. These people lived there for several months. In Mošorin every single Hungarian was treated as war-criminal, saying that everybody took part in killing Serbs in the 1942 raid. Later, at late 1945 these people were eliberated from the concentration camps, but they were never allowed to return to their hometown. The collective guilt have never been cancelled, and the victims have never received any compensation for their property and suffering.
Since then Mošorin was part of the new Socialist Yugoslavia
Between 1992 and 2003 it was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, between 2003 and 2006 part of Serbia and Montenegro, and since 2006, it is part of an independent Serbia.
[edit] Historical population
- 1869: 2,214
- 1880: 2,394
- 1910: 3,606
- 1921: 3,632
- 1931: 3,854
- 1961: 2,906
- 1971: 2,694
- 1981: 2,483
- 1991: 2,552
- 2002: 2,763
[edit] Famous people from Mošorin
- Svetozar Miletić (1826-1901), the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina.
- Isidora Sekulić (1877-1958), a famous Serb literate, academician.
- Dušan Kanazir (born in 1921), biologist, academician, and president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1981-1994).
- Mladen Dražetin (born in 1951), a literate and theatrical creator.
- Ilija Kolarić, a painter.
- Svetozar T. Vlaškalić, an Orthodox priest.
[edit] Family names of the villagers
Some prominent families in the village include: Bačkalić, Banjac, Bedov, Bugarin, Vlaškalić, Dimitrov, Dražeta, Đurđević, Etinski, Jelovac, Jovanović, Jurišin, Kanazir, Karanov, Kirćan, Kozarev, Kolarić, Krunić, Kuruca, Maletin, Marjanov, Marić, Miletić, Milnović, Mirosavljev, Pantelemonov, Petakov, Požarev, Rakić, Ranisavljev, Savin, Svirčev, Sekulić, Stanojev, Subotin, Suzić, Tubić, Nestorović, etc.
[edit] References
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
[edit] See also
- Titel
- Šajkaška
- South Bačka District
- Bačka
- Vojvodina
- List of places in Serbia
- List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
[edit] External links
- River Tisa near Mošorin
- The Monastery foundation of Ver. Rev. Svetozar Vlaškalić in Mošorin
- Mošorin
- Place index - Mošorin
- Šta se to čudno zbiva u Mošorinu
- Mošorin
