250px, Map of Ostrovo from 1912 Ostrovo ( sr-cyr, Острово) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the municipality of Kostolac,

city of Požarevac A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

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. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 685 people.

Name

"Ostrovo" means "island" in

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. This name originates from the fact that Ostrovo is located on former

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island (see: Ostrovo (island)) that historically was part of

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region. In

, the village is known as ''Ostrovo'' (Острово), in

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as ''Ostrova'', and in Hungarian as ''Temessziget''.

History

Village was formed during the

Great Serb migration The Great Migrations of the Serbs (), also known as the Great Exoduses of the Serbs, were two migrations of Serbs from various territories under the rule of the Ottoman Empire to the Kingdom of Hungary under the Habsburg monarchy. The First ...

, led by Arsenije Čarnojević. Until 1751, Ostrovo was part of the

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and then part of the Habsburg

Military Frontier The Military Frontier (; sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна крајина, Vojna krajina, sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна граница, Vojna granica, label=none; ; ) was a borderland of the Habsburg monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungari ...

. From 1848 to 1849, it was part of

Serbian Vojvodina The Serbian Vojvodina () was a short-lived self-proclaimed autonomous province within the Austrian Empire during the Revolutions of 1848, which existed until 1849 when it was transformed into the new (official) Austrian province named Voivodes ...

, but in 1849 it was again included into Military Frontier. After abolishment of the frontier, in 1873, Ostrovo was included into

Temes County County of Temes ( Hungarian: ''Temes'', Romanian: ''Timiș'', Serbian: ''Тамиш'' or ''Tamiš'', German: ''Temes'' or ''Temesch'') was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in southwestern ...

of the

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and

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. It was part of the Kovin municipality within the county. According to 1910 census, ethnic

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were in absolute majority in Ostrovo. Other ethnic groups that lived in the village were

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and

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. In 1918, Ostrovo first became part of the

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and then part of the

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(which was renamed to

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in 1929). From 1918 to 1922, it was part of the

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county, from 1922 to 1929 part of the

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oblast, and from 1929 to 1941 part of

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 ...

. From 1941 to 1944, it was part of

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, which was under

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. In 1942, Germans built an embankment that transformed island on which Ostrovo was located into an peninsula, connecting it with the southern bank of the

. After the war, Ostrovo became part of the new

socialist Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

whose authorities transferred the village from Kovin municipality to Požarevac municipality. Therefore, unlike the most of historical

Serbian Banat Banat ( , ; ; ; ) is a geographical and historical region located in the Pannonian Basin that straddles Central and Eastern Europe. It is divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of Timiș, Caraș ...

, Ostrovo was included into

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and not into

Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Vojvodina ( ; sr-Cyrl, Војводина, ), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to ...

. Despite this administrative change, the village still belongs to the Banat eparchy of the

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church#Constit ...

. In 2007, municipality of

Požarevac Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čač ...

was elevated to city status, and in 2009, an urban municipality of

Kostolac Kostolac ( sr-Cyrl, Костолац) is a town in Serbia and one of two city municipalities which constitute the City of Požarevac. It is situated on the Danube river. The remains of Viminacium, the capital of the Roman province of Moesia Superi ...

was formed, as part of the city of Požarevac. Ostrovo was also included into newly formed Kostolac municipality.

Demographics

In 2002, population of Ostrovo numbered 685 inhabitants, including 583

, 95 people of unknown ethnicity, 3

, 3 Macedonians, and 1 Montenegrin.

References

External links

Poreznici u Požarevcu, crkva u Vršcuwww.ostrovo.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ostrovo (Pozarevac) Populated places in Braničevo District

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History

Demographics

See also

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