| Mali Iđoš Мали Иђош Kishegyes |
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| Church of Saint Anne in Mali Iđoš | |||
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| Location of the municipality of Mali Iđoš within Serbia | |||
| Coordinates: | |||
| Country | Serbia | ||
| District | North Bačka | ||
| Settlements | 3 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Csóré Róbert | ||
| Area[1] | |||
| • Municipality | 175 km2 (67.6 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2011 census)[2] | |||
| • Town | 5,465 | ||
| • Municipality | 13,494 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 24321 | ||
| Area code | +381 24 | ||
| Car plates | SU | ||
Mali Iđoš (Serbian and Montenegrin Cyrillic: Мали Иђош, Hungarian: Kishegyes) is a village and municipality in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The municipality comprises three local communities and has a population of 13,476, of whom 7,546 (55.92%) are ethnic Hungarians. Mali Iđoš has a population of 5,464, of which Hungarians form an absolute majority of 88.3% or 5,046 people.
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The first part of the name of the village, "mali" ("little" in English), was given in contrast to the village with similar name (Iđoš), which is situated in northern Banat.
Mali Iđoš municipality includes the following villages:
The total population of the Mali Iđoš municipality is 13,494. By ethnic structure:
By language:
By religion:
Local communities with a Hungarian majority are Mali Iđoš and Feketić. There is one local community with a Montenegrin majority: Lovćenac.
The name of Kishegyes was first mentioned in historical documents in 1476. The village became totally destroyed under Turkish occupation in the 16th century. It was repopulated in 1769 by 81 Roman Catholic Hungarian families from Békésszentandrás. The region is extremely well suited for agriculture and the village increased in wealth and population until the 1980s. In the 1990s the local economy was ruined and young people began to emigrate to Hungary. Today the rate of unemployment is appr. 30 percent, and the Agricultural Cooperative and the Commercial Company went bankrupt. After the end of the civil war in Croatia and Bosnia (1995–96) Serbian refugees arrived to Mali Iđoš (Kishegyes). There are no ethnic tensions between native Hungarians and the Serbian refugees.
The oldest building in Mali Iđoš is the baroque Roman Catholic Church of St. Anne (1788) on the Main Street. There is an old Calvary, the obelisk of the Battle of Kishegyes and the ruins of the Pecze Mansion. The natural attractions are the River Krivaja and the imposing loessal walls of the Hills of Telečka.
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