Aradac (; hu, Aradi) is a village located in the

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous pro ...

municipality, in the

Central Banat District The Central Banat District ( sr, Средњобанатски округ, Srednjobanatski okrug, ; hu, Közép-bánsági körzet) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It lies in the geogr ...

of Vojvodina,

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 ...

. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 3,335 people (2011 census).

Name

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...

, the village is known as ''Aradac'' (Арадац), in Slovak as ''Aradáč'', in Hungarian as ''Aradi'', and in

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as ''Aradatz''.

Ethnic groups

1971

According to the 1971 census, ethnic

Slovaks The Slovaks ( sk, Slováci, singular: ''Slovák'', feminine: ''Slovenka'', plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak. In Slovakia, 4.4 mi ...

comprised 58.56% of population of the village.

2002

In 2002, the population of the village included: * 1,650 (47.67%)

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 ...

* 1,376 (39.76%)

* 96 (2.77%)

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

* 94 (2.72%)

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 ...

* 49 (1.42%)

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 ...

* 17 (0.49%)

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 ...

* 179 (5.17%) others

Historical population

*1961: 4,001 *1971: 3,824 *1981: 3,825 *1991: 3,573 *2002: 3,461 *2011: 3,335

Sports

The model flying field located southwest of Aradac is scheduled to host the 2025 FAI World Championships for Space Models from 21-28 August, 2025.

References

*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

Notes

Zrenjanin Populated places in Central Banat District Populated places in Serbian Banat {{CentralBanatRS-geo-stub