Maradik () is a village in

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. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of

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, in the region of

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(

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), in

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municipality. Maradik is located about 10 km west of

. The village has a 60% Serb ethnic majority and its total population in 2011 was 2,095.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as ''Maradik'' or Марадик, in Croatian as ''Maradik'', and in Hungarian as ''Maradék''.

History

After Hungarian Roman Catholic residents of the village were rejected by bishop

Josip Juraj Strossmayer Josip Juraj Strossmayer, also Štrosmajer (; german: Joseph Georg Strossmayer; 4 February 1815 – 8 April 1905) was a Croatian politician, Roman Catholic Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishop, and benefactor (law), benefactor. Early life an ...

in their request to get Hungarian language speaking priest, their representatives went to

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to meet reformed bishop to request collective conversion to Protestantism.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

*Serbs = 1,394 (60.66%) *Hungarians = 552 (24.02%) *Croats = 105 (4.57%) *Yugoslavs = 90 (3.92%)

Historical population

*1961: 2,651 *1971: 2,350 *1981: 2,255 *1991: 2,120 *2002: 2,298 *2011: 2,095

Famous People

*Nenad Živković (Debeli Sremac)

References

Sources

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