The village of Srpski Krstur
Srpski Krstur (Српски Крстур), also known as Krstur (Крстур), is a village located in Serbia, in the Novi Kneževac municipality of the North Banat District, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,620 people (2002 census).
[edit] Name & History
In Serbian Cyrillic, the village is known as Српски Крстур, in Serbian Latin and Croatian as Srpski Krstur, and in Hungarian as Ókeresztúr.
Bronze Age graves of south Russian steppe nomads was found in Đala.
The village was mentioned first in 15th century under name Papkeresztúr during the administration of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Its current name means "the Serb Krstur" (There is also a village of Ruski Krstur in Vojvodina, meaning "the Rusyn Krstur"). The Serbian name of the village derived from Serbian word krst ("cross" in English), while Hungarian name derived from Hungarian word kereszt (meaning "cross" in English too). The Hungarian word kereszt itself is of Slavic origin - variants of this word in some other Slavic languages are including Bulgarian "Кръст" ("krst"), Macedonian "Крст" ("krst"), Russian "Крест" ("krest"), Ukrainian "Хрест" ("hrest"), etc.
[edit] Historical population
- 1961: 2,415
- 1971: 2,201
- 1981: 1,794
- 1991: 1,552
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
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