Tamburica ( or ) or tamboura ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", tamburica, тамбурица, little tamboura; hu, tambura; el, Ταμπουράς, Tampourás; sometimes written tamburrizza or tamburitza), refers to a family of long-necked
lute
A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...
s popular in
Southern Europe
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and
Central Europe
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, especially
Serbia
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(in
Vojvodina
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,
Mačva
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and Posavo-Tamnava),
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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,
Croatia
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, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
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(of which it is the national string instrument),
Slovenia
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, and
Hungary
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( predominantly amongst its ethnic South Slavic minority groups). It is also known in
Burgenland
Burgenland (; hu, Őrvidék; hr, Gradišće; Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland;'' Slovene: ''Gradiščanska'') is the easternmost and least populous state of Austria. It consists of two statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of ...
,
Austria
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. All took their name and some characteristics from the
Persia
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
n
tanbur
The term ''Tanbur'' ( fa, تنبور, ) can refer to various long-necked string instruments originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia. According to the '' New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', "terminology presents a compli ...
but also resemble the
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
and
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
in the sense that its strings are
plucked and often paired. The frets may be moveable to allow the playing of various
modes
Mode ( la, modus meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* '' MO''D''E (magazine)'', a defunct U.S. women's fashion magazine
* ''Mode'' magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is ...
. The variety of tamburica shapes known today were developed in Serbia and Croatia by a number of indigenous contributors near the end of the 19th century.
History
![Incidence area of CE tambura](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Incidence_area_of_CE_tambura.png)
There is little reliable data showing how the tamboura entered
Central Europe
Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, based on a common historical, social and cultural identity. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between Catholicism and Protestantism significantly shaped the area' ...
. It already existed during Byzantine Empire, and the Greeks and Slavs used to call "pandouras" (see
pandoura
The pandura ( grc, πανδοῦρα, ''pandoura'') or pandore, an ancient string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments. Akkadians played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC. Ancient Greek artwork d ...
) or "
tambouras
The tambouras ( el, ταμπουράς ) is a Greek traditional string instrument of Byzantine origin. It has existed since at least the 10th century, when it was known in Assyria and Egypt. At that time, it might have between two and six strings ...
" the ancestor of modern bouzouki. The instrument was referred to as θαμπούριν, ''thambourin'' in the Byzantine Empire (confer
Digenis Akritas
''Digenes Akritas'', ) is a variant of ''Akritas''. Sometimes it is further latinized as ''Acritis'' or ''Acritas''. ( el, Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτας, ) is the most famous of the Acritic songs and is often regarded as the only surviving epic ...
, Escorial version, vv. 826–827, ed. and transl. Elizabeth Jeffrey).
It is said it was probably brought by the
Turks
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to
Bosnia
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, from where the instrument spread further with migrations of
Šokci
Šokci ( sh, / , italics=yes, , ; , ; hu, Sokácok) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to historical regions of Baranya, Bačka, Slavonia and Syrmia. These regions today span eastern Croatia, southwestern Hungary, and northern Serbia ...
and
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 ...
above the
Sava River
The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally t ...
to all parts of
Croatia
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, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
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, capit ...
,
Serbia
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and further, although this theory is not consistent with the generally accepted view that the ancestor of the tamboura is the ancient Greek pandouris.
Until the
Great Migration of the Serbs
The Great Migrations of the Serbs ( sr, Велике сеобе Срба), also known as the Great Exoduses of the Serbs, refers mainly to two large migrations of Serbs from various territories under the rule of the Ottoman Empire to regions u ...
at the end of the 17th century, the type of tambura most frequently used in Croatia and Serbia had a long neck and two or three strings (sometimes doubled). Similar string instruments include the Czech
bratsche Bratsch may refer to:
*Gampel-Bratsch, municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland
**Bratsch, village in Gampel-Bratsch in the district of Leuk of the canton of Valais in Switzerland
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,
Turkish saz and the
sargija,
çiftelia and
bouzouki
The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...
. The oldest surviving and authenticated tambura known, which is still kept in a museum in Osijek, dates from 1847 and was owned by Pajo Kolarić of Osijek, who was also the founder of the first amateur tamburica orchestra. In honour of
him, a festival called tamburitzan is held every year in Osijek.
The development process of the modern tamburica was initiated by several Serbian and Croatian citizens over a period of time. The original long neck, pear shaped tamburica was called the ''samica'' and it came in a small or larger size. The ''kontra,'' which had 4 strings tuned in an upper A chord was used only as an accompaniment instrument, it originated in
Dalmatia
Dalmatia (; hr, Dalmacija ; it, Dalmazia; see #Name, names in other languages) is one of the four historical region, historical regions of Croatia, alongside Croatia proper, Slavonia, and Istria. Dalmatia is a narrow belt of the east shore of ...
. During the autumn of 1875, after a rebellion in Bosnia had broken out, many refugees arrived in
Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci ( sr-cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ; hu, Karlóca; tr, Karlofça) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danu ...
. Among these refugees was a man named Marko Capkun who brought two tamburas with him. He called the small one ''icitel'' and the larger one ''sarkija.'' These tamburas did not use wire strings but rather gut strings pulled through little holes on the neck and tied behind. A woodworker, Josif, in Sremski Karlovci began to make Marko's tamburas, but instead of the traditional pear shape, he made them into the shape of a little guitar. A bird catcher named Joza built a large tambura-much bigger than a guitar in 1877 or 1878. It stretched two thicker and two thinner strings on it and Joza called it the ''bas'' or ''berdon.'' They developed an orchestra with a little tambura called the ''prima ,'' 5 ''kontra'' and 1 ''bas.''
Types of tamburica
The number of strings on a tamburica varies and it may have single or double-coursed strings or a mixture of both. Double-coursed strings are tuned in
unison
In music, unison is two or more musical parts that sound either the same pitch or pitches separated by intervals of one or more octaves, usually at the same time. ''Rhythmic unison'' is another term for homorhythm.
Definition
Unison or per ...
. The basic forms of tamburica are (Serbian and Croatian name is given with Hungarian name in the parenthesis, if different):
*The ''
samica
The samica is a small stringed and fretted traditional Croatian and Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the cross ...
'' – while a solo instrument and not generally part of the tamburica orchestra, two double strings.
*The ''prim'' (''prím'') – one double string, ''E'', and three single strings ''B'', ''F#'', ''C#''. This is the smallest tamburica (about 50 cm long), but is very loud. It is mostly used as a
lead instrument
The term lead instrument carries a variety of connotations. A lead instrument could be a reference to an instrument that plays the melody of a piece, an instrument that has been designed for this purpose, such as clarinet or violin, or a specific ...
or harmonizing instrument. The ''bisernica'' (from
Serbian and Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic language and the primary language of Ser ...
"biser" meaning "pearl") is almost identical but may have two double strings and two single strings.
*The ''brač'' or ''basprim'' (''brács'' or ''basszprím'') – three double strings, or two double strings and three single strings (basprim), a slightly bigger, lower instrument than the bisernica but played in a similar fashion.
*The ''čelović'' – originally two double strings and two single strings; now four single strings are more common.
*The ''bugarija'' or ''kontra'' (''brácsó'' or ''kontra'') – one double string ''D'' and three single strings, similar to a
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
, mostly plays chords on the "back beat" for rhythm. A bugarija has five strings, the bottom pair are ''D'', the middle string is ''A'' and the top two are tuned ''F#'' and ''F#''.
*The ''čelo'' (''cselló'') – four strings, similar in size to the bugarija and plays a counterpoint line which is usually improvised.
*The ''bas'' or ''berda'' (''tamburabőgő''), also called ''begeš'' (''bőgős'') – four strings. It is the largest instrument in the tamburica family, and is similar to
contrabass
Contrabass (from it, contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchest ...
. It can only be played standing and is used for playing bass lines.
There is a view that the first tambura orchestra was formed in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
in the 19th century.
[Volly István: Bajai tamburások – A bajai tamburazenekar története (1964.)] The instruments' names came from the Hungarian names of the musical instruments of the
symphony orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...
("cselló" meaning
cello
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, "bőgő" meaning
contrabass
Contrabass (from it, contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchest ...
) and from the Hungarian Gipsy bands (''bőgős'', ''prím'', ''kontra'').
These orchestras soon spread to what is now
Bosnia
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,
Austria
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,
Slovenia
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, the
Czech Republic
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and
Slovakia
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.
File:Bisernica, instrument (size).jpg, ''prim (bisernica)''
Image:Brac, instrument (size).jpg, ''brač (brács, basprim, basszprím, )''
Image:Celovic, instrument (size).jpg, ''čelović''
Image:Bugarija, instrument (size).jpg, ''bugarija (brácsó, kontra)''
Image:Celo, instrument (size).jpg, ''čelo (cselló)''
Image:Berda, instrument (size).jpg, ''bas (berda, begeš, bőgős, tamburabőgő)''
Parts of tamburica
The tamburica is made in three parts; body, neck and head. The body (
sound box
A sound box or sounding box (sometimes written soundbox) is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air. Objects respond more strongly to vibr ...
) was pear-shaped until the middle of the nineteenth century CE, and was built by scooping out the log. Today they are mostly built in the way of the guitar and even the smallest, the bisernica, has a constructed box. The fingerboard has frets ( sh-Latn, prečnice, krsnice, pragovi). The head ( sh-Latn, čivijište, hu, fej) usually had a sharpened form, which can be found still on some bisernicas, but the "snail" design later got the supremacy. The snail headstock design dates from at least the 19th century and the Viennese guitars of
Johann Georg Stauffer
Johann Georg Stauffer (also Johann Georg Staufer; born January 26, 1778 in Vienna; died 24 January 1853) was an Austrian luthier and the most important Viennese luthier of his time.
Life
Stauffer was born in the Viennese suburb of Weißgerber, ...
.
Composers and ensembles
![Tambura ensemble](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Tambura_ensemble.png)
Tamburica
orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
s can have various formats from a trio to a large orchestra. A basic trio consists of a ''prim'', a ''kontra'' and a ''čelo''. Larger orchestras also have ''bas-prims'' and ''bass-prim-terc'' tamburas.
The first major composer for the tamburica was
Pajo Kolarić
Pajo Kolarić (1821–1876) was an early Croatian composer for tamburitza. Kolarić formed the first amateur tamburitza orchestra in Osijek
Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest ...
, who formed the first amateur tamburica orchestra in
Osijek
Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja ...
in 1847. Kolarić's student Mijo Majer formed the first tamburica choir led by a
conductor, the "Hrvatska
Lira
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", in 1882. Croatian composers for the tamburica include Franjo Ksaver Kuhač, Siniša Leopold and Julije Njikoš. The instrument is associated with
Croatian nationalism
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.
Vinko Žganec
Vinko Žganec (January 22, 1890 - December 12, 1976) was a Croatian ethnomusicologist.
Žganec was born in Vratišinec in Međimurje. He started to be interested in music early in his childhood and jotted down his first folk song in 1908. In 1916 ...
, an associate of
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...
, collected more than 19,000 Croatian folk songs.
![Janika Balaž monument Novi Sad](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Janika_Bala%C5%BE_monument_Novi_Sad.jpg)
The Grand Tamburica Orchestra of
Radio Novi Sad
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was founded in 1951 under the leadership of Sava Vukosavljev, who composed and arranged many pieces for tamburica orchestra and published a comprehensive book ''Vojvođanska tambura'' ("The Tambura of
Vojvodina
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"). There are also orchestras of
Radio Belgrade
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and Radio
Podgorica
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, Radio
Kikinda
Kikinda ( sr-Cyrl, Кикинда, ; hu, Nagykikinda) is a city and the administrative center of the North Banat District in Serbia . The city urban area has 38,069 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 59,453 inhabitants.
The c ...
etc.
Janika Balaž
Janika Balaž ( sr-cyr, Јаника Балаж; ; 23 December 1925 – 12 November 1988) was a famous tamburitza musician and band leader from Vojvodina, Serbia.
Life
He was born 1925 to a Hungarian-speaking Romani family with strong musical ...
, a member of the Radio Novi Sad orchestra who also had his own octet, was a popular performer whose name became synonymous with the tamburica. Famous tamburica orchestras of Serbia include those of Maksa Popov and Aleksandar Aranicki.
The village of
Schandorf
Schandorf ( hr, Čemba, hu, Csém) is a village in the district of Oberwart in Burgenland in southeastern Austria.
History
The earliest record of the village's existence dates to 1244. In the first half of the 16th century, the region was dev ...
in
Austria
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, whose
Croatian-speaking inhabitants are descended from 16th Century Croatian immigrants, is the home of a tamburica orchestra, a reflection of its ethnic heritage. The orchestra performs frequently, often outside the village.
In popular culture
Films about tamburicas
*''The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago'' (1978)
*:Directed by Jill Godmilow, Martin Koenig and Ethel Raim. Produced by Mary Koenig, Ethel Raim and Jill Godmilow.
*''Ziveli! Medicine for the Heart'' (1987)
*:Filmed and directed by
Les Blank
Les Blank (November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013) was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians.
Life and career
Leslie Harrod Blank Jr. was born November 27, 1935 in Tampa, Florida. He atten ...
. Produced by
Flower Films
Flower Films is an American production company owned by Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen.
Filmography
Film
* ''Never Been Kissed'' (1999)
* '' Charlie's Angels'' (2000)
* ''Donnie Darko'' (2001)
* '' Duplex'' (2003)
* '' Charlie's Angels: Fu ...
in association with the Center for Visual Anthropology,
University of Southern California
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. Based on ethnography by Andre Simic.
El Cerrito, California
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: Flower Films & Video. .
Publications
''
Svet Tambure
''Svet Tambure'' is a music and culture magazine, published triannually in Novi Sad, Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situa ...
'', a magazine about tambura music, published triannually in Serbia.
See also
*
Tambouras
The tambouras ( el, ταμπουράς ) is a Greek traditional string instrument of Byzantine origin. It has existed since at least the 10th century, when it was known in Assyria and Egypt. At that time, it might have between two and six strings ...
*
Tanpura
The tanpura (), also referred to as tambura and tanpuri, is a long-necked plucked string instrument, originating in India, found in various forms in Indian music.
It does not play melody, but rather supports and sustains the melody of an ...
*
Tambura
*
Tanbur
The term ''Tanbur'' ( fa, تنبور, ) can refer to various long-necked string instruments originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia. According to the ''New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', "terminology presents a compli ...
*
Tambur
The ''tambur'' (spelled in keeping with TDK conventions) is a fretted string instrument of Turkey and the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. Like the ney, the armudi (lit. pear-shaped) kemençe and the kudüm, it constitutes one of the four in ...
*
Marko Nešić (born 1872) Marko Nešić may refer to:
* Marko Nešić (born 1976), Serbian conductor and composer
* Marko Nešić (born 1872) (1872–1938), Serbian composer and musician
{{Hndis, Nesic, Marko ...
*
Zvonko Bogdan
Zvonimir "Zvonko" Bogdan ( sr-cyr, Звонимир "Звонко" Богдан; born 5 January 1942) is a Serbian Bunjevac performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Romania. He is also a composer, wine producer and har ...
References
External links
TamburicaOrg – tamburaški portal – tambura portalTamburizza.at – Tamburizza Verein Ivan Vukovic-ParndorfTambura.com.hrTamburica Association of America by Michael B. Savor (Canada)
The San Francisco Tamburitza Festival
Music samples
"Ugrós, lassú és friss csárdás" from
Bátmonostor
Bátmonostor () is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population of 1503 people (2015).
Demography
Residents are Magyars. There is a small commun ...
, Hungar
"Aki leány akar lenni" (csárdás) from
Bogyiszló
Bogyiszló is a village in Hungary in Tolna county near Szekszárd. Famous for its hot, white-skinned peppers.
Geography
Bogyiszló is located from 11 km east from Szekszárd, in the southern part of Mezőföld, near the Danube river and ...
, Hungar
Publikált népzenei felvételek -- On-line adatbázis"Lassú csárdás" from
Dávod, Hungar
Publikált népzenei felvételek -- On-line adatbázis"Zvečera se šečem" Tamburica ensemble "Ivan Vuković",
Parndorf
Parndorf ( hu, Pándorfalu, hr, Pandrof) is a town in the district of Neusiedl am See in the Austrian state of Burgenland. Its original ancient name Perun
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Tamburaško društvo Ivan Vuković Pandrof - ShopZ. Tonković: "Sjene"(Croatia)
Janika Balaž and his orchestra: "Fala"(Croatia/Zagorje
"Deronjski valcer" from
Deronje
Deronje () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Odžaci municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,847 people (2002 census).
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