Telečka (
Serbian Cyrillic: Телечка,
Hungarian: ''Bácsgyulafalva'') is a village in
Serbia. It is in the
Sombor municipality, in the
West Bačka District,
Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 2,084 people (2002 census). It is surrounded by a sandy region, also referred to as ''Telečka'', or ''Telečka sands''.
History
Settlement was built in 1883-1884 by Hungarian colonists. First census was conducted in 1890 and it recorded population of 2,479 inhabitants. Before the First World War this village was part of Bács-Bodrog County (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary). Since 1918, it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia). Today, the village has a Hungarian ethnic majority with more than 70% of the population.
Ethnic groups (2002 census)
*
Hungarians = 1,508 (72.36%)
*
Serbs = 429 (20.59%)
*
Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
= 37 (1.78%)
*
Yugoslavs = 23 (1.10%)
*
Croats = 13 (0.62%)
*others.
Historical population
*1961: 2,996
*1971: 2,665
*1981: 2,429
*1991: 2,138
See also
*
List of places in Serbia
*
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References
* Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links
www.soinfo.orghttp://bacsgyulafalva.5mp.eu
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Places in Bačka
Sombor
West Bačka District