Šuljam () is a village located in the
Sremska Mitrovica
Sremska Mitrovica (; sr-Cyrl, Сремска Митровица, hu, Szávaszentdemeter, la, Sirmium) is a city and the administrative center of the Srem District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the left bank ...
municipality, in the
Syrmia District of
Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of
Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 744 people (2002 census).
Name
In
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
, the village is known as ''Šuljam''(Шуљам), in
Croatian as ''Šuljam'', and in
Hungarian as ''Sulyom''.
History
It is believed that the first vines in the
Eastern Roman Empire on
Fruška Gora (''ALMA MONS lat.'') and above the Suljam on a hill called Glavica, was planted by the Roman emperor
Marcus Aurelius Probus.
In 1579 Suljam is known as a village, but on maps it is shown for the first time in 1730. The Suljam was under the authority of Puppet state of
NDH
The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was established in p ...
in
World War II.
Historical population
*1761. : 590
*1793. : 513
*1810. : 550
*1961. : 952
*1971. : 863
*1981. : 777
*1991. : 741
*2002. : 744
People have said about Šuljam
1698. : "The village can earn up to 1000 forints per year."
1702. : "This place has around 44 houses. It is inhabited by Orthodox Rashani(Christians). They have a beautiful church, which, according to their testimony, was built by St. Episcop Maxim, whose body rests in the church of the Krušedol monastery. At the time of the Turks, cattle farmers did not pay for the use of common pastures, nor gave nineteenth products to the local community. They do not remember who was the last Christian landlord. The turkish landlord was Halil-beg from Mitrovica, to whom they paid each tenth of what they produced and
Oka
Oka or OKA may refer to:
Cars
* Oka (automobile), a small car designed by AvtoVAZ and produced by ZMA and SeAZ
* OKA 4wd, a large 4-wheel-drive vehicle made in Western Australia by OKA
Military
* 2B1 Oka, Soviet 420 mm self-propelled mor ...
of butter per home. Sultan's tax in the amount of 3 forints per session of land(23ha) paid in Budim.
1761. : "This is one of the oldest villages in
Syrmia
Syrmia ( sh, Srem/Срем or sh, Srijem/Сријем, label=none) is a region of the southern Pannonian Plain, which lies between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia and Croatia. Most of the region is flat, with the exce ...
. An old church can still be seen in it, which is said to have been built by St. Episcop Maxim. Suljam residents are all Orthodox Christians. There are about 600 people, including 54 peasant families, various craftsmen and one Gypsy family. There is a shop in the village.
1774. : "Suljam has 69 houses"
Present
It was theme in the TV series State Job in the 1026th episode.
References
*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
*Marko Jačov, Srem na prelomu dva veka, Beograd 1990.
Fruškać2018
Family names of the locals
Some of the prominent families in the village include:
Miloradić, Vidović, Manastirac, Janković, Đenić, Bošković, Kuzminac, Apić, Radosavljević, Stefanović, Đurić, Radić, Smiljanić, Grujić, Vidić, Nikolić, Janić, Dević, Subić, Ivković, Tomičić, Terzić, Lazić, Vasić, Milinković, Đurđević, Jurišić, Ostojić, Lukić, Ličinar, Andrić, etc.
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Populated places in Syrmia
Sremska Mitrovica