Sečanj

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Coordinates: 45°22′N 20°46′E / 45.367, 20.767
Sečanj Сечањ
Location of Sečanj within Serbia
Country	Serbia
District	Central Banat
Settlements	11
Government
- Mayor	Predrag Milošević
Area ^[1]
- Municipality	523 km² (201.9 sq mi)
Population (2002 census)^[2]
- Total	2,647
- Municipality	16,377
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23240
Car plates	ZR
Area code	+381 23

The new Orthodox church.

Old houses.

Filling-station in the village. The razed Catholic church stood here until the 1950s.

Sečanj (Сечањ, Romanian: Seceani) is a village and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 2,645, while the Sečanj municipality has 16,298 inhabitants.

1 Name
2 Historical population of the village
3 Inhabited places
4 Ethnic groups (2002 census)
5 References
6 See also

[edit] Name

"Sečanj" is a Slavic name for the first month in the calendar year. The Serbian Ekavian variant of this name was eventually replaced with the new word "Januar" (corresponding to the common months as known in Western European cultures), while the Croatian Ijekavian variant "Siječanj" remains in use in Croatia.

In Serbian, the village is known as Сечањ or Sečanj, in Hungarian as Szécsány or Torontálszécsány, in German as Setschan or Petersheim, and in Croatian as Sečanj.

[edit] Historical population of the village

1837: 1,489
1900: 2,596
1961: 2,829
1971: 2,906
1981: 2,718
1991: 2,688

[edit] Inhabited places

The Sečanj municipality includes the town of Jaša Tomić and the following villages:

[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the Sečanj municipality:

Serbs = 11,607 (70.87%)
Hungarians = 2,068 (12.63%)
Romanians = 642 (3.92%)
Roma = 609 (3.72%)
Yugoslavs = 266 (1.62%)
Croats = 148 (0.9%)
Bulgarians = 114 (0.7%)

The settlements with Serb ethnic majority are: Sečanj, Banatska Dubica, Boka, Jarkovac, Jaša Tomić, Krajišnik, and Sutjeska. The settlement with Hungarian ethnic majority is Busenje. Ethnically mixed settlements with relative Serb majority are: Konak, Neuzina, and Šurjan.

[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)

[edit] See also

Municipalities and cities of Serbia

v • d • e

Central Serbia

City of Belgrade: (Barajevo • Čukarica • Grocka • Lazarevac • Mladenovac • Novi Beograd • Obrenovac • Palilula • Rakovica • Savski Venac • Sopot • Stari Grad • Surčin • Voždovac • Vračar • Zemun • Zvezdara)• City of Čačak • City of Jagodina • City of Kragujevac: (Aerodrom • Pivara • Stanovo • Stari Grad • Stragari)
• City of Kraljevo • City of Kruševac • City of Leskovac • City of Loznica • City of Niš:(Crveni Krst • Medijana • Niška Banja • Palilula • Pantelej) • City of Novi Pazar • City of Požarevac • City of Smederevo • City of Šabac • City of Užice • City of Valjevo • City of Vranje • City of Zaječar

Aleksandrovac • Aleksinac • Aranđelovac • Arilje • Babušnica • Bajina Bašta • Batočina • Bela Palanka • Blace • Bogatić • Bojnik • Boljevac • Bor • Bosilegrad • Brus • Bujanovac • Crna Trava • Čajetina • Ćićevac • Ćuprija • Despotovac • Dimitrovgrad • Doljevac • Gadžin Han • Golubac • Gornji Milanovac • Ivanjica • Kladovo • Knić • Knjaževac • Koceljeva • Kosjerić • Krupanj • Kučevo • Kuršumlija • Lajkovac • Lapovo • Lebane • Lučani • Ljig • Ljubovija • Majdanpek • Mali Zvornik • Malo Crniće • Medveđa • Merošina • Mionica • Negotin • Nova Varoš • Osečina • Paraćin • Petrovac • Pirot • Požega • Preševo • Priboj • Prijepolje • Prokuplje • Rača • Raška • Ražanj • Rekovac • Sjenica • Smederevska Palanka • Sokobanja • Surdulica • Svilajnac • Svrljig • Topola • Trgovište • Trstenik • Tutin • Ub • Varvarin • Velika Plana • Veliko Gradište • Vladičin Han • Vladimirci • Vlasotince • Vrnjačka Banja • Žabari • Žagubica • Žitorađa