Mali Iđoš

Mali Iđoš

Мали Иђош
Kishegyes
Mali Iđoš Мали Иђош Kishegyes
Village
	Church of Saint Anne in Mali Iđoš
	Coat of arms
	Location of the municipality of Mali Iđoš within Serbia
Country	Serbia
District	North Bačka
Settlements	3
Government
• Mayor	Csóré Róbert
Area
• Municipality	175 km2 (68 sq mi)
Population (2011 census)
• Town	4,830
• Municipality	11,926
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	24321
Area code	+381 24
Car plates	SU

Mali Iđoš (Serbian and Montenegrin Cyrillic: Мали Иђош, pronounced [mâːliː îdʑoʃ]; Hungarian: Kishegyes, pronounced [ˈkiʃhɛɟɛʃ]) is a village and municipality in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The municipality comprises three local communities and has a population of 12,031, of whom 6,486 (53.91%) are ethnic Hungarians, 2,388 are Serbs (19.85%) and 1,956 are Montenegrins (16.26%). Mali Iđoš village has a population of 4,830.

Name

The first part of the name of the village, "mali" ("little" in English), was given in contrast to the village with similar name (Iđoš), which is situated in northern Banat.

Inhabited places

Mali Iđoš municipality includes the following villages:

Mali Iđoš (Hungarian: Kishegyes)
Lovćenac (Montenegrin: Lovćenac / Ловћенац)
Feketić (Hungarian: Bácsfeketehegy)

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the total population of the Mali Iđoš municipality is 12,031. By ethnic structure:^[3]

6,486 Hungarians (53.91%)
2,388 Serbs (19.85%)
1,956 Montenegrins (16.26%)
283 Romani (2.35%)
55 Croats (0.46%)
43 Albanians (0.36%)
33 Ethnic Muslims (0.27%)
30 Rusyns (0.25%)
24 Yugoslavs (0.2%)
20 Macedonians (0.17%)
15 Ukrainians (0.12%)
13 Bunyevs (0.11%)
13 Germans (0.11%)
8 Slovenes (0.07%)
8 Russians (0.07%)
4 Slovaks (0.03%)
3 Bosniaks (0.02%)
2 Romanians (0.02%)
others - 123 (1.02%)
non-declared - 371 (3.08%)
regionally declared - 64 (0.53%)
unknown - 85 (0.71%)

By language:

6,683 Hungarian (55.55%)
4,470 Serbian (37.15%)
270 Montenegrin (2.24%)
24 Croatian (0.2%)
16 Rusyn (0.13%)
3 Romanian (0.02%')
2 Slovak (0.02%)
337 other (2.8%)
137 undeclared (1.14%)
89 unknown (0.74%)

By religion:

10,862 Christians (90.28%)
- 4,478 Catholics (37.22%)
- 4,257 Eastern Orthodox Christians (35.38%)
- 2,086 Protestants (17.34%)
- 18 other (0.15%)
232 Muslims (1.93%)
10 other (0.08%)
181 atheist (1.5%)
604 undeclared (5.02%)
142 unknown (1.18%)

Local communities with a Hungarian majority are Mali Iđoš and Feketić. There is one local community with a Montenegrin majority: Lovćenac.

History

The name of Kishegyes was first mentioned in historical documents in 1476. The village became totally destroyed under Turkish occupation in the 16th century. It was repopulated in 1769 by 81 Roman Catholic Hungarian families from Békésszentandrás. The region is extremely well suited for agriculture and the village increased in wealth and population until the 1980s. In the 1990s the local economy was ruined and young people began to emigrate to Hungary. Today the rate of unemployment is appr. 30 percent, and the Agricultural Cooperative and the Commercial Company went bankrupt. After the end of the civil war in Croatia and Bosnia (1995–96) Serbian refugees arrived to Mali Iđoš (Kishegyes). There are no ethnic tensions between native Hungarians and the Serbian refugees.

Historical population of the village

1961: 6,860
1971: 6,603
1981: 6,271
1991: 5,803
2002: 5,464
2011: 4,830

Sights

The oldest building in Mali Iđoš is the baroque Roman Catholic Church of St. Anne (1788) on the Main Street. There is an old Calvary, the obelisk of the Battle of Kishegyes and the ruins of the Pecze Mansion. The natural attractions are the River Krivaja and the imposing loessal walls of the Hills of Telečka.

Famous people

The Hungarian singer Magdolna Rúzsa grew up in Mali Iđoš. She won Megasztár, Hungary's version of Pop Idol in 2006 and represented Hungary at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland.
Istvan Dudas is a former Serbian professional footballer, who currently works as Goalkeeper coach for R.O.C. de Charleroi-Marchienne.^[4]

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Mali Iđoš is twinned with:

Cetinje, Montenegro, since 2012

References

^ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
^ "Population by ethnicity – Mali Iđoš". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS). Retrieved 28 February 2013.
^ Le Noyau : Istvan Dudas (T3) - ROCCM

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

External links

[1] "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 2010-11-28.

[2] "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia: Comparative Overview of the Number of Population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002 and 2011, Data by settlements" (PDF). Statistical Office of Republic Of Serbia, Belgrade. 2014. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

[3] "Population by ethnicity – Mali Iđoš". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS). Retrieved 28 February 2013.

[4] Le Noyau : Istvan Dudas (T3) - ROCCM

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Mali Iđoš	Lovćenac Feketić
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