Dobričevo (

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: Добричево, hu, Udvarszállás) is a village in

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. It is situated in the

Bela Crkva Bela Crkva ( sr-cyrl, Бела Црква, ; german: Weißkirchen; hu, Fehértemplom; ro, Biserica Albă) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a populatio ...

municipality, in the

South Banat District The South Banat District ( sr, Јужнобанатски округ, Južnobanatski okrug, ; hu, Dél-bánsági körzet; ) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The administrative center of ...

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province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority (88.49%) and a population of 226 (2002 census).

History

The village was founded in 1825 under name ''Ud-varsallas'' and was settled by 265

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colonists

The village church was founded in 1861, and railway station in 1891. Before 1918, the village was part of the Krassó-Szörény county of former

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. After 1918, it was part of the Banat county of the

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, after 1922 part of

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oblast and after 1929 part of

Danube Banovina Danube Banovina or Danube Banate ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Dunavska banovina, Дунавска бановина), was a banovina (or province) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of the geographical ...

. From 1941 to 1944 it was occupied by

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troops and was included into German-administered autonomous region of

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within the area governed by the Military Administration in Serbia, and since 1945, it is part of the autonomous province of

within

and

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

Historical population

*1961: 408 *1971: 334 *1981: 306 *1991: 265 *2002: 226

References

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

External links

Map of the Bela Crkva municipality showing the location of DobričevoDobricevo unofficial site
Populated places in Serbian Banat Populated places in South Banat District Bela Crkva {{SouthBanatRS-geo-stub

History

Historical population

See also

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