Čardak is a former vacation settlement on the southern edge of the
Deliblatska peščara
Deliblato Sands ( sr, Делиблатска пешчара, Deliblatska peščara; hu, Delibláti-homokpuszta) is a large sand area covering around of ground in Vojvodina province, Serbia. It is located in southern Banat, situated between the ri ...
(Deliblato Sands), in the community of
Kovin
Kovin (, hu, Kevevára) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 13,515, while the municipality has 33,722 inhabitants.
In Romanian, the tow ...
in
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
. It has served as a
refugee camp since 1991. The camp is about five km east of the village of
Deliblato in the
South Banat District
The South Banat District ( sr, Јужнобанатски округ, Južnobanatski okrug, ; hu, Dél-bánsági körzet; ) is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The administrative center of ...
.
During the
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from ...
many Serbs fled from
Croatia
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and
Bosnia, or were driven out. Some of them found refuge in the former vacation settlement in Čardak. In 2005, about 200 people lived in the camp.
''Novi smeštaj za izbeglice kolektivnog centra „Čardak“''. (''Neue Unterkunft für die Flüchtlinge des Kollektivzentrums Čardak''). TV Vojvodina, 10. Dezember 2009
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References
External links
Report by Radio Vatican
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Refugee camps in Serbia
Populated places in South Banat District
Kovin