Trešnjevac (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (, ), also known as the Serbian script, (, ), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th cen ...

: Трешњевац, ) is a village in

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. It is situated in the

Kanjiža Kanjiža ( sr-Cyrl, Кањижа, pronounced ) formerly Stara Kanjiža ( sr-cyrl, Стара Кањижа; ; , formerly ''Kanizsa'') is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Kan ...

municipality, in the

North Banat District The North Banat District (, ) is one of administrative districts of Serbia. It lies in the geographical regions of Banat and Bačka. According to the 2022 census, the North Banat District has a population of 117,896 inhabitants. The administra ...

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( ; sr-Cyrl, Војводина, ), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies withi ...

province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority (96.19%) and its population numbering 1,868 people (2002 census).

History

Human communities have lived in this area as early as in the

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistory, prehistoric period during which Rock (geology), stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended b ...

. The first written record about the settlement is from 1271. The record mention it under the name ''Fel-Adrian''. Modern Trešnjevac was founded around the 1850s.

Historical population

*1961: 2,357 *1971: 2,304 *1981: 2,135 *1991: 2,028 *2002: 1,868 *2011: 1,763

Features

The inhabitants of the village are mostly farmers; sheep breeding is one of the characteristic features of Trešnjevac.

Politics

During the

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incid ...

, the ''Zitzer Club'' (''Zitzer Spiritual Republic'') was an important gathering place for those, who resisted the ongoing war. The foreign media paid special attention to it.

Cultural life

''Gazdag Ág'', organized in Trešnjevac, is one of the most important folk events in the municipality. It is a competition between folk organizations. The aim of the event is to give platform to the rich cultural heritage of ethnic Hungarian villages in the region. The German Filmmakers Marc Haenecke and Michael Leuthner shot a feature-length documentary about the Zitzer Club, which was broadcast on German TV and was shown on several film festivals.

References

* Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

History of Trešnjevac
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tresnjevac Places in Bačka Populated places in North Banat District Kanjiža Hungarian communities in Serbia