Svetozar Miletić (village)

Svetozar Miletić Светозар Милетић Nemesmilitics
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Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Municipality	Sombor
Population  (2002)
• Total	3,169
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	25211
Area code	+381 25
Vehicle registration	SO

Sombor

Kljajićevo

Čonoplja

Svetozar Miletić

Telečka

Bački Monoštor

Bezdan

Kolut

Bački Breg

Gakovo

Kruševlje

Stanišić

Aleksa Šantić

Rastina

Riđica

Stapar

Doroslovo

Municipality
of Sombor
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Svetozar Miletić (Template:Lang-sr, Template:Lang-hu, Template:Lang-hr, Bunjevac: Svetozar Miletić or Lemeš, Template:Lang-de) is a village in Bačka region in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 3,169 people (2002 census).

Name

The village was named after Svetozar Miletić, a political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina from second half of 19th century.

In Serbian, the village is known as Svetozar Miletić (Светозар Милетић), in Croatian as Lemeš (since 2009) or Svetozar Miletić (before 2009), in Bunjevac as Svetozar Miletić or Lemeš, in German as Milititsch, and in Hungarian as Nemesmillitics. Before 1925, in Serbian, Croatian and Bunjevac the name Lemeš (Лемеш) was used for the village.

The origin of the village name in Hungarian comes from the Hungarian word nemes (a noble), while for the word militics it is believed that it comes from Latin militis (a soldier). Local Bunjevci people have shortened and transformed the name Nemesmilitics into Lemeš. During the administration of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes the village name was changed into Svetozar Miletić (in 1925).

Demographics

According to the 2002 census, ethnic groups in the village included:

• Hungarians = 1,455 (45.91%)
• Croats = 581 (18.33%) (*)
• Serbs = 549 (17.32%) (*)
• Bunjevci = 217 (6.85%) (*)
• Yugoslavs = 149 (4.70%) (*)
• others.

(*) Total number of South Slavs (Croats, Serbs, Bunjevci, Yugoslavs) that live in the village is 1,496 (47.21%).

Historical population

• 1961: 3,990
• 1971: 3,860
• 1981: 3,685
• 1991: 3,292
• 2002: 3,169
• 2011: 2,738

Famous persons

• Gaja Alaga (1924–1988), theoretical physicist
• Stevan Horvat (1932), Greco-Roman style wrestler, Olympics silver medalist in 1968
• Đuro Kanjurski (1853–1920), professor of Aramaic and Arabic at Royal University in Budapest
• Grgo Knezi (1892–1944), priest, biologist
• Petar Knezi (1859–1929), priest and writer
• Tereza Kočiš (1932), gymnast that participated on several Olympics
• Mirko Vidaković (1924–2002), botanist
• dr Pajo Vidaković (1879–1942), priest, ethnologist, author of textbooks, writer

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
• Antonija Čota: "Lemeš - u osimu plemenitog ravničarskog drača"

External links

• Template:Hu icon History of Svetozar Miletić