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Map of Ruma municipality
View northwesterly of Ruma vicinity NASA World Wind
The Orthodox church.
The Catholic church.
Monument in the center of the city.
The Borkovac Lake

Ruma (Serbian Cyrillic: Рума) is a town and municipality located in Vojvodina, Serbia at 45°00′N 19°50′E / 45.00°N 19.83°E / 45.00; 19.83. In 2002 the town had a total population of 34,229, while Ruma municipality had a population of 60,006.

History

Traces of organized human life on the territory of Ruma municipality date back as far as the prehistory. The most important archaeological locality in the municipality is Bronze Age Gomolava[1] near Hrtkovci, with two exclusive tombs of Bosut culture dating to 9th century BC[2] and 3000BC Vučedol culture pottery[3]. First known inhabitants of this area were various peoples of Illyrian and Celtic origin, such as the Amantini, Breuci, Scordisci, etc. During Roman rule, local inhabitants lost their ethnic character and adopted Roman culture. There were no larger Roman settlements on the territory of Ruma, but a certain number of agricultural estates known as "villae rusticae" were located there.

Migrations of Huns, Germanic peoples, Avars and Slavs destroyed the Roman culture in this area. During the following centuries, the region was ruled by Frankish Empire, Bulgarian Empire, Byzantine Empire and Kingdom of Hungary.

The settlement named Ruma was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter from 1566/7. In that period Ruma was a village inhabited by Serbs, with 49 houses a church and three priests. [1]

Since 1718, Ruma was under administration of the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1746, the town of Ruma was founded near the village of Ruma. First inhabitants of the town were Serbs, [2] who came from neighboring settlements, as well as Germans, who came from Germany. In the beginning of the 19th century, Croats and Hungarians settled there as well. In 1807, a large rebellion of the Syrmian peasants known as the Tican's Rebellion started on the estate of Ruma, with its center in the village of Voganj. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Ruma was one of the important centers of Serbian national movement in Syrmia. According to the 1910 census, population of the Ruma municipality numbered 49,138 inhabitants, of whom 22,956 spoke Serbian, 15,529 German, 5,746 Hungarian, and 3,730 Croatian. [3]

After the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy, on November 24, 1918, the Assembly of Syrmia proclaimed the union of Syrmia with the Kingdom of Serbia.

Before World War II, Ruma was one of the centers of German national minority in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1942, during the Axis occupation of Syrmia, a unit of the Third Reich's Wehrmacht, known as the Volunteer Company Ruma ES der DM, was formed from local Volksdeutsche volunteers. [4] A large number of non-German citizens of Ruma participated in anti-fascist struggle against Axis occupation.[4] In 1944, as a consequence of the war, most members of German national minority left the town escaping before Yugoslav partisans and Soviet Red Army. [4] The Germans living in Ruma, like most Germans in Yugoslavia during WWII, were systematically rounded up by the Partisans, stripped of their land and belongings, and transported against their will to slave labor camps in Russia. Those who refused to leave, especially the German men, were killed in public. These Germans were known as the Donauschwaben.

After the war, colonists from various parts of former Kingdom of Yugoslavia settled this area. During the 1990s, about 10,000 refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo settled in Ruma as well. In 1949 The aeroclubs of Jugoslavia (Vazduhoplovni Savez Jugoslavije) opened a pilot school, a school for parachute instructors and a school for aircraft modeling in Ruma, all of which were supported by the Airforces of Jugoslavia. This culminated in a praised International aeromeeting held in the central town in 1950.

Inhabited places

Ruma municipality includes the city of Ruma and the following villages:

Demographics (2002 census)

Ethnic groups in the Ruma municipality

All settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.

Ethnic groups in the Ruma town

Notable citizens

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=c124fe69-28e3-4107-90a1-ac3a68d29ac8&articleId=fb6c1d70-1d2d-4f74-9d1f-ec7cb2845766
  2. ^ http://www.balkaninstitut.com/pdf/izdanja/balcanica/balcanica%2035/01%20Tasic.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.balkaninstitut.com/pdf/izdanja/balcanica/Balcanica_XXXVI_2005.pdf
  4. ^ a b "Opština Ruma - Istorija" (in Serbian). Internet Media. 2006. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
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