Banatsko Višnjićevo (; ) is a village in
Serbia
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. It is situated in the
Žitište
Žitište ( sr-Cyrl, Житиште, ; ; ) is a town and municipality located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2022 census, the town itself has a population of 2,550, while Žitište municipali ...
municipality, in the
Central Banat District
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Vojvodina
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province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (94.27%) and its population was 384 as of the 2002 census.
Name
The exact origin of the village name is unclear. It was either named after the famous Serb epic poet
Filip Višnjić
Filip Višnjić ( sr-Cyrl, Филип Вишњић, ; 1767–1834) was a Serbian epic poet and '' guslar''. His repertoire included 13 original epic poems chronicling the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire and four reinterpret ...
or for the
cherry tree
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("višnja" in Serbian) that was founded here by the first settlers, or after the
surveyor
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Višnjić, who performed first measuring in the settlement.
In
Hungarian the village is known as ''Vida''.
Historical population
*1961: 677
*1971: 577
*1981: 458
*1991: 391
See also
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List of places in Serbia
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List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina, a province of Serbia
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References
Further reading
*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
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Populated places in Serbian Banat