Sakar (Сакар) is a small village next to
Mali Zvornik in the
Mačva District
The Mačva District ( sr, / , ) is one of eight administrative districts of Šumadija and Western Serbia. It expands in the western parts of Serbia, in the geographical regions of Mačva, Podrinje, Posavina, and Pocerina. According to the 2011 ...
of
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 has a population of 504 people. The village is on Lake Zvornik (Зворнико језеро). It is near a hydroelectric power station.
History
There were only two Muslim villages on the right side of the
Drina river
The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long Balkans river, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps whic ...
in 1862: Mali Zvonrik and Sakar. Sakar came under the administration of the
Principality of Serbia when it became internationally recognized as a condition of the
Treaty of Berlin. After this event, Serbian families began to move into the village. The nearby hydroelectric power station was completed in 1954, and the resulting inundation of farmland depleted the traditional Muslim population of the village.
Historical population
*1948: 451
*1953: 423
*1961: 499
*1971: 508
*1981: 587
*1991: 633
*2002: 504
[''in ]Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
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* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
'' Књига 9, ''Становништво, упоредни преглед броја становника 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002, подаци по насељима'', Републички завод за статистику, Београд, мај 2004,
Ethnic groups in Sakar (2002)
References
See also
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List of places in Serbia
Populated places in Mačva District
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