Banatsko Veliko Selo (Serbian Cyrillic: Банатско Велико Село) is a village in the Kikinda municipality, in the North Banat District of the Republic of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a population of 3,034 (2002 census) of which the majority are Serbs.
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The name of the village means "Great Banat Village" in Serbian language. The village was formed after World War II by unifying three villages. Those three villages have had Banat Swabian ethnic majority and were named Sankt Hubert, Charleville and Seultour in German, and Szenthubert, Károlyliget and Szentborbála in Hungarian.
Following Ottoman rule, there were no proper settlements in the present location of the village. Following an order by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria on November 25, 1763, the right to settle this area was given exclusively to Roman Catholics. In 1770 and 1771, this area was settled by French settlers from the Lorraine region and by southwestern German settlers, the southwestern German settlers later becoming known as the Banat Swabians. They founded three villages — Sankt Hubert, Charleville and Seultour. In the course of the late 18th century, these settlements changed hands several times. Over time, the French settlers were assimilated into the German population. After World War II, the Germans were expelled, and Serb families from Bosnian Krajina region settled the area. One larger village named Veliko Selo was formed out of the three exisitng German villages. In 1948, its name was changed to Banatsko Veliko Selo. The names of the former German villages are today used as names for districts within the larger village.
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Memorial about a boy who died of electric shock currents.