Lokve (

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 ...

: Локве,

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: ''Locve'', ''Sân-Mihai'' or ''Simiai'') 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 Alibunar

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority (90.85%) and a population of 2,002 people (2002 census). The town often seems rather empty since more than half of population of Lokve lives abroad - mainly in USA and Switzerland.RTS about village Lokve
/ref> The town has an interesting origin story, there was 3 men and a woman who had sheep, they decided to set up at the ends of the town to protect the sheep. The town grew from there to now what it is today.

Name and Name History

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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

, the village is known as ''Lokve'' (Локве), in

as ''Sân-Mihai'' or ''Simiai'', and in Hungarian as ''Végszentmihály''. The town name was changed from Saint Micheal when the town was invaded by the Nazi military forces during World War II.

Historical population and cemetery

The Town has two cemeteries, one on each side of the town, and is only used for each side. Every family gets reserved spots on the cemetery.

Notable people

Lazăr Sfera Lazăr Sfera ''( sr, Lazar Sfera)'' (29 April 1909, in Sân Mihai, Austria-Hungary (today in Serbia) – 24 April 1992) was a Romanian footballer who played as a defender. Biography At club level, he began his career at the youth team of Po ...

(1909–1992), Romanian footballer

Sources

*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. *Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku, Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u 2002, Stanovništvo 1, Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost - podaci po naseljima, Beograd, Februar 2003. *Na temeljima gde je prvobitno bilo smešteno naselje pronađeni su praistorijski predmeti i jedan srebrni denar iz doba kralja Domicijana (51 - 96. pre n.e.). U ataru susednog sela Janošik pronađeni su temelji kuće iz doba Rimljana i kraljevski novac. Prilikom iskopa temelja Crkve u Alibunaru pronađen je novac sa amblemom Rima i natpisom Vibius, Tribarianus, Gallus.

References

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External links

Official Website of Lokve
{{South Banat District Populated places in South Banat District Populated places in Serbian Banat Alibunar Romanian communities in Serbia