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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
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, the town is known as Cuvin, in Hungarian as Kevevára or (until 1899) Temeskubin, and in
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as Kubin or Temeschkubin. In the past, the town was also known as Donji Kovin ("lower Kovin") in contrast to the town with same name in Hungary that was known in Serbian as '' Gornji Kovin'' ("upper Kovin") and in Hungarian as ''Ráckeve'' ("the Serb Kovin").


History

The Dacian tribe of
Albocenses The Albocenses ( la, Albocenses/Albocensii) were a Dacian tribe that inhabited the area of Banat (Serbia, Romania) with the towns of Kovin (''Contra Margum''), ''Trans Tierna'', ''Ad Medias II'', Kladovo (''Ad Pontes''), ''Apu'', '' Arcidava'', '' ...
dwelled in this area in the second century AD. There are remains of the ancient
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called ''
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'', opposite to the Margum, a fortress on the other side of the Danube. In the ninth and tenth centuries, this area was populated by
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and
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and
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ruled over the region. Glad was defeated by the
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, and the area was included into the medieval
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. In the 11th century, one of the descendants of Glad,
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, ruled over the region but he, too, was defeated by the Hungarians. The earliest mention of the settlement was in 1071 as ''Keuee''. Kovin is mentioned in the 12th century as a seat of the county, which included most of the western
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. Since the 14th century, the city has had a large Serb population that escaped there from
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under threat by the
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. The Serbian despot
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took control over the city in 1457, but in the next year it came again under control of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the 16th century, the city was included in the Ottoman Empire and became a part of the Ottoman Province of Temeşvar. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), Kovin was mostly populated by ethnic Serbs. In 1716, it became part of the
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and belonged to the Habsburg
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until 1751 when it became part of the Habsburg Military Frontier ( Banat Krajina). In 1848/1849, Kovin was part of the Serbian Voivodship, but in 1849 it was again placed under administration of the Military Frontier. With the abolishment of the Military Frontier in 1873, Kovin was incorporated into Temes county within the
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. According to the 1910 census, Kovin District had a population of 35,482, of whom 21,795 spoke
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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
, 6,587
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, 5,705
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, and 5,355 Hungarian. This town had a significant role in the outbreak of World War I.Manfried, Rauchensteiner. ''The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918''
p. 27
(
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, Vienna, 2014).
In July 1914, a purported military skirmish here was a proximate cause of the declaration of war against Serbia by Franz Joseph I of Austria, but the report of such skirmish was apparently false, or greatly exaggerated. In 1918, Kovin became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929). Between 1918 and 1922, it was part of Banat county; between 1922 and 1929 part of the Podunavska oblast; and between 1929 and 1941 part of the
Danube Banovina Danube Banovina or Danube Banate ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Dunavska banovina, Дунавска бановина), was a banovina (or province) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of the geographical ...
. Between 1941 and 1944, Kovin was under Axis occupation and was part of the autonomous
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region within
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- occupied Serbia. The town was heavily bombed by the
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in 1944.Serbs were not specially chosen as targets
, Danas
In 1945, it became part of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina within the Socialist Republic of
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and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1992, Kovin became part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was in 2003 transformed into the state union of
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. Since 2006, the town is part of an independent
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.


Inhabited places

Kovin municipality includes the town of Kovin and the following villages: *
Bavanište Bavanište (Serbian Cyrillic: Баваниште) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District of Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (89.37%) and its population numbers ...
* Gaj *
Deliblato Deliblato (; ro, Deliblata) is a village in Serbia, situated in the Kovin municipality in the Vojvodina province. The village has a total population of 3,498 (2002 census), with a Serb ethnic majority and a Romanian minority. The Deliblatska Pe ...
* Dubovac *
Malo Bavanište Malo Bavanište () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (94.28%) and its population numbering 420 people (2002 census). Historical pop ...
*
Mramorak Mramorak (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Мраморак) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (71.79%) with a pr ...
* Pločica * Skorenovac ( hu, Székelykeve) *
Šumarak Šumarak is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. Name Other names of the village: Serbian Cyrillic: Шумарак, Hungarian: ''Emánueltelep''. Historical population ...
There is also this unofficial settlement in municipality: * Čardak


Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the total population of the municipality of Kovin was 33,722 inhabitants.


Ethnic groups

;Municipality Settlements with a Serb ethnic majority are: Kovin, Bavanište, Gaj, Deliblato, Dubovac, Malo Bavanište, Mramorak, and Pločica. Skorenovac has a Hungarian ethnic majority. Šumarak is an ethnically mixed settlement with a relative Hungarian majority. ;Town


Economy

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):


Twin cities

* Ráckeve, Hungary


See also

* List of places in Serbia *
Municipalities of Serbia The municipalities and cities ( sr, општине и градови, opštine i gradovi) are the second level administrative subdivisions of Serbia. The country is divided into 145 municipalities ( sr-Latn, opštine, singular: ; 38 in Southern ...
* South Banat District


References

#Jovan Erdeljanović, Srbi u Banatu, Novi Sad, 1992. #Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.


External links


Municipality of Kovin

Radio BUS - News from Kovin

Kovin Ekspres - online news and newspaper from Kovin

NETcom - Information technologies - services and data recovery
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