Čestereg ( sr-cyr, Честерег; hu, Csősztelek) is a village in

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. It is situated in the

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municipality, Central Banat District,

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province. The village has a

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ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,391 people (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Честерег or ''Čestereg'', in Hungarian as ''Csősztelek'', in

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as ''Tschesterek'' or ''Neuhatzfeld'', and in Croatian as ''Čestereg''.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1332 as ''Cherezek''. During the Ottoman invasion it was devastated. In the 19th century, the area of present-day village belonged to Count József Csekonics (a Hungarian of Croatian descent). The modern village was founded in 1828. Its first inhabitants were

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, but since they left from the village, Csekonics settled

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in 1829. In 1900, the population of the village was composed of 2,001

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, 673

, and 64

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. After

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, as a consequence of the war events, German population fled from the village and was replaced with

settlers from Herzegovina and

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Ethnic groups (2002 census)

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= 1,294 (93.03%) *

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= 27 (1.94%) *

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= 15 (1.08%) *

Yugoslavs Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians ( Bosnian and Croatian: ''Jugoslaveni'', Serbian and Macedonian ''Jugosloveni''/Југословени; sl, Jugoslovani) is an identity that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slavic people. It has b ...

= 14 (1.01%) *

= 11 (0.79%) *others.

Historical population

*1836: 1,213 *1900: 2,767 *1961: 2,101 *1971: 1,766 *1981: 1,581 *1991: 1,465 *2002: 1,391

References

#Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. #Borislav Jankulov, Pregled kolonizacije Vojvodine u XVIII i XIX veku, Novi Sad - Pančevo, 2003.

Pictures Gallery

Cestereg-school.jpg, Old school in Čestereg Čestereg,_site_of_the_future_Orthodox_church.jpg, The foundations of the new Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint

Elijah Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My El (deity), God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic language, Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) w ...

Cestereg church-1910.jpg, Old Catholic church of

John of Nepomuk John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) ( cs, Jan Nepomucký; german: Johannes Nepomuk; la, Ioannes Nepomucenus) ( 1345 – 20 March 1393) was the saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus ...

built in 1880, destroyed by Communists in 1948

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cestereg Populated places in Serbian Banat