Vajska (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Вајска ; ro, Vaisca) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

. It is situated in the Bač

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, in the

South Bačka District The South Bačka District ( sr, Јужнобачки округ, Južnobački okrug, ; hu, Dél-bácskai körzet; ) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Geographically it lies in the southern ...

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

province. Two neighbouring settlements, Labudnjača ( sr-cyr, Лабудњача; ) and Živa, are also officially regarded as parts of Vajska although they are physically separated from it. The name ''Labudnjača'' is derived .

Name

In Serbian the village is known as ''Vajska'' (Вајска), in Croatian as ''Vajska'', in Hungarian as ''Vajszka'' or ''Józsefháza'', in

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as ''Wajska'' and in

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as ''Vaisca''.

History

During the early stage of the

Yugoslav Wars The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia from ...

and following the

Battle of Borovo Selo The Battle of Borovo Selo of 2 May 1991, known in Croatia as the Borovo Selo massacre ( hr, Pokolj u Borovom Selu) and in Serbia as the Borovo Selo incident ( sr, Инцидент у Боровом Селу), was one of the first armed clashes ...

in neighbouring

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river link was established between Vajska and Borovo 4 of May 1991 which during its operation reportedly served between 10-30,000 passengers including Croat refugees leaving the village of Borovo.

Demographics

The population of the village numbered 2,834 people as of the 2011 census. In 2002, the population included 1,319

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

, 569

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Culture of Romania, Romanian culture and Cultural heritage, ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they l ...

, 353

Croats The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, G ...

, 341

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Urali ...

, 207

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 ...

, and others.

Historical population

*1961: 4,355 *1971: 3,798 *1981: 3,448 *1991: 3,272 *2002: 3,169

Gallery

File:Bac mun.png, Map of the Bač municipality showing the location of Vajska. File:Vajska,_Catholic_Church.jpg, Saint George the Martyr Catholic church.

References