Jarkovac () is a village in
Serbia
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. It is situated in the
Sečanj
Sečanj (, hu, Torontálszécsány) is a town located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town itself has a population of 2,373, while the Sečanj municipality has 13,267 inhabitants.
Name
"Sečanj" ...
municipality,
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 ...
,
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. The village has a
Serb
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The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
ethnic majority (76.27%), with
Hungarian (8.69%) and
Romanian
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(5.72%) minorities. Its population was 1,817 people in the 2002 census.
Name
In Hungarian, the name of the village is Árkod. In German the name is Jarkowatz.
Historical population
*1961: 2,963
*1971: 2,624
*1981: 2,291
*1991: 2,155
*2002: 1,817
Ethnic groups
In 1910, there were 3,019 people living in Jarkovac: 2,602 Serbians, 313 Germans, 54 Hungarians, 14 Romanians, 6 Croatians, 4 Slovaks and 26 others.
See also
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List of places in Serbia
This is the list of populated places in Serbia (excluding Kosovo), as recorded by the 2002 census, sorted alphabetically by municipalities. Settlements denoted as "urban" (towns and cities) are marked bold. Population for every settlement is giv ...
*
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina, a province of Serbia.
List of largest cities and towns in Vojvodina
List of urban settlements in Vojvodina
List of all urban settlements (cities and towns) in Vojvodina with populati ...
References
*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
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Populated places in Serbian Banat
Populated places in Central Banat District
Sečanj