Petar Pekić ( hu, Pékity Péter;

Felsőszentiván Felsőszentiván (Croatian: ''Gornji Sveti Ivan'' and ''Gornji Sentivan'') is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 2 ...

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

, 1896 – 1965) was a Hungarian-Croatian historian,

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and

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from Bácska (Bačka). The quality of his works opened him the place in the Geza Kikić's anthology of

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and poetry of

Bunjevci Bunjevci ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Bunjevci, Буњевци, ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=, separator=" / ", Bunjevac, Буњевац, sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=, separator=" / ", Bunjevka, Буњевка) are a South Slavic sub-ethnic group living ...

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 ...

. Petar Pekić was also an important person in politics. As a Bunjevci Croat from southern Hungary, he participated at the Paris Peace Conference on September 22, 1919, as a part of the Bunjevci Croat mission.

Works

*translations *

Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ...

: ''Moj boravak u Berlinu'', 1951. *historical *''Povijest oslobođenja Vojvodine'', Grafika, Subotica, 1939 *''Vae victis : ili pobijanje kritike dra Dušana Popovića i Vase Stajića'', Subotica, 1930 *''Propast Austro-Ugarske Monarhije : i postanak nasljednih država'', Grafika, Subotica, 1937 *''Povijest Hrvata u Vojvodini : od najstarijih vremena do 1929. godine'', Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1930

Sources

* Geza Kikić: ''Antologija proze bunjevačkih Hrvata'', Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, 1971 * Geza Kikić: ''Antologija poezije bunjevačkih Hrvata'', Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, 1971 * Milovan Miković: ''Roman u književnosti Hrvata u Vojvodini - antologija, Osijek, 2008.

External links

Eötvös József Főiskola, Baja
Nemzetiségi referens felsőfokú szakképzési program - A horvát kisebbség irodalma I.II.III.
Antologija proze bunjevačkih Hrvata

Antologija poezije bunjevačkih Hrvata

Kojim je jezikom govorio Blaško Rajić (old link, currently unavailable)

Roman u književnosti vojvođanskih Hrvata, 13. veljače 2009. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pekic, Petar 1896 births 1965 deaths Croatian novelists Male novelists Croatian male poets 20th-century Croatian historians Hungarian people of Croatian descent 20th-century Croatian poets 20th-century novelists 20th-century male writers Bunjevci Croats of Vojvodina