Molin (

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: Молин) was a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

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. The village was founded in 1832 and existed until 1961. It was located in the Nova Crnja Municipality, Central Banat District,

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Province. The village was abandoned because of

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. Today the location of the former village is Molin Forest, which is used as a hunting ground.

Name

In Serbian the village is known as ''Molin'' (Молин), in

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as ''Mollydorf'', and in Hungarian as ''Mollyfalva''.

Geography

Molin was located at 45°38'37N and 20°32'21E, between Aleksandrovo, Banatsko Karađorđevo, Torda, Bašaid, Banatska Topola,

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, and Nova Crnja. Today, the area of the former Molin village administratively belongs to the settlement of Nova Crnja.

History

It was founded during Austrian Habsburg administration (in 1832) by

settlers. First census from 1836 registered 558 inhabitants in the village. The village was administratively a part of the Torontal County within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. In 1848-1849, the village was part of autonomous

Serbian Vojvodina The Serbian Vojvodina ( sr, Српска Војводина / ) was a short-lived self-proclaimed Serb autonomous province within the Austrian Empire during the Revolutions of 1848, which existed until 1849 when it was transformed into the new (o ...

, and in 1849-1860 it was part of the

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, a separate Austrian land. After the abolishment of the voivodeship in 1860, the village was again included into Torontal County. It was also part of the Hatzfeld district within the county. In 1910, the village had German ethnic majority. In 1918, as part of the

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region, the village firstly became part of the Kingdom of Serbia and then part of the

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(later renamed to

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). From 1918 to 1922 Molin was part of the Veliki Bečkerek county, from 1922 to 1929 part of the Belgrade oblast, and from 1929 to 1941 part of the Danube Banovina. During the

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occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1944, the village was part of the German-administered

region that had special status within the Axis puppet state of

. At the end of

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, in 1944, one part of local German inhabitants left from the area, together with defeated German army. Those who remained in the region were sent to local communist prison camps, and one of these camps was located in Molin.Molidorf History
/ref> After communist prison camps were dissolved (in 1948), most of the remaining German population left Yugoslavia mainly because of economic reasons. Since 1944, the village was part of Yugoslav

, which, from 1945, was an autonomous province of new socialist

within Yugoslavia. After the war, the village was populated by settlers who mostly came from neighboring settlements. According to the 1953 census, Molin had a

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ethnic majority. In 1956, the village was devastated by catastrophic flood and was resettled and abandoned in the following year. Most of the residents moved to nearby settlements of Nova Crnja and Vojvoda Stepa. Today, there is a Molin Forest on the location where Molin village once was.

Historical population of the village

*1869: 794 *1880: 783 *1890: 936 *1900: 1,202 *1910: 1,060 *1921: 1,272 *1931: 1,203 *1948: 423 *1953: 1,121

References

External links

Bagerima teraju vodu iz kuća - Vesti.rs
(in Serbian)
Voda dolazi, kuće tonu - Glas javnosti
(in Serbian)
Molin location map

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