Ruski Krstur (

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: Руски Крстур; Rusyn: Руски Керестур) is a village in

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. It is located in the municipality of Kula,

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. The village has a Rusyn ethnic majority. Its population numbered 5,213 in the 2002 census. Ruski Krstur is the cultural centre of the Rusyns in Serbia. The number of Rusyns in Ruski Krstur is in constant decline as many of them have moved out to

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concentrating in the town of

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.Sa bačke crnice na led i sneg Kanade

The village is the seat of the

Greek Catholic Eparchy of Ruski Krstur The Eparchy of San Nicola di Ruski Krstur ( sr, Крстурска гркокатоличка епархија) is a Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Serbia. It was founde ...

, part of the wider

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Name

Its name means "the Rusyn Krstur" (There is also a village called Srpski Krstur, meaning "the

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Krstur", in Vojvodina). The name "Krstur" itself derived from Slavic word ''krst'' (крст) ("cross" in English). The Hungarian name for the village derived from the Hungarian word "kereszt", which also means "cross" in English. The first written record of Ruski Krstur was made during the administration of the

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in 1410 and then in 1452, mentioning it under name ''Kerezthwr''. In Hungarian the village is known as ''Bácskeresztúr''; in Slovak as ''Ruský Kеrеstur''; and in Croatian as ''Ruski Krstur'', in Rusyn ''Руськый Керестур''.

Ethnic groups

1971

According to the 1971 census, ethnic

Rusyns Rusyns (), also known as Carpatho-Rusyns (), or Rusnaks (), are an East Slavic ethnic group from the Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn, an East Slavic language variety, treated variously as either a distinct langu ...

comprised 99.45% of population of the village.

2002

According to the 2002 census, the population of the village include: *

= 4,483 (86.00%) *

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= 263 (5.05%) *others.

Historical population

*1948: 5,874 *1953: 6,115 *1961: 5,873 *1971: 5,960 *1981: 5,826 *1991: 5,636 *2002: 5,213

Politics

There is an initiative among inhabitants of Ruski Krstur that this settlement become its own municipality completely separate from Kula.

References

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

External links

Ruski Krstur - Web page about the village

Welcome to First Internet Web Presentation of Ruski Kerestur

Rusyns in Serbia

Vodica in Ruski Krstur

Rusyn On The Internet
{{Authority control Places in Bačka West Bačka District Kula, Serbia