Ečka

Ečka Ечка
Village
Serbian Orthodox Church (1711)
Ečka Location of Ečka within Serbia
Ečka Location of Ečka within Vojvodina
Coordinates: 45°19′04″N 20°26′20″E / 45.31778°N 20.43889°E / 45.31778; 20.43889Coordinates: 45°19′04″N 20°26′20″E / 45.31778°N 20.43889°E / 45.31778; 20.43889
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Elevation	71 m (233 ft)
Population (2002)
• Ečka	4,513
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23203
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

Ečka (Serbian Cyrillic: Ечка, Serbian pronunciation: [êtʃka]) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

Name and history

In Serbian, the village is known as Ečka (Ечка), in Romanian as Ecica or Ecica Română, in German as Deutsch-Etschka, and in Hungarian as Écska (until 1899: Német-Écska).

The village was merged with former settlement known as Mala Ečka (Мала Ечка) in Serbian, Alt Etschka in German, and Román-Écska or Olahécska in Hungarian.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,513 people (2002 census).

Serbs = 2,483 (55.02%)
Romanians = 1,325 (29.36%)
Hungarians = 196 (4.34%)
Yugoslavs = 123 (2.73%)
Romani = 72 (1.60%)

Historical population

1900: 4,892
1931: 5,207
1948: 3,934
1953: 4,188
1961: 4,323
1971: 4,621
1981: 5,293
1991: 5,172

Trivia

Franz Liszt played piano at Kaštel castle as a nine-year-old boy.

References

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

External links

About Ečka (ADF/USAID)

Additional pictures

The Romanian Orthodox Church
The Catholic Church of St. John Baptist, built in 1864 as the third church
Blazon of counts Lazar in Ečka
Main street and the Catholic Church
The Kaštel castle, built in 1820, by count Lukács
Tower in Ečka
Old bridge over Begej 1995, built 1889, renovated 1894 and later 2005
Old bridge over Begej 1995 with sheep and church in background

Cities, towns and villages in the Central Banat District

Zrenjanin	Aradac Banatski Despotovac Belo Blato Botoš Elemir Ečka Jankov Most Klek Knićanin Lazarevo Lukino Selo Lukićevo Melenci Mihajlovo Orlovat Perlez Stajićevo Taraš Tomaševac Farkaždin Čenta

Žitište	Banatski Dvor Banatsko Višnjićevo Banatsko Karađorđevo Međa Novi Itebej Ravni Topolovac Srpski Itebej Torak Torda Hetin Čestereg

Nova Crnja	Aleksandrovo Vojvoda Stepa Radojevo Srpska Crnja Toba

Novi Bečej	Bočar Kumane Novo Miloševo

Sečanj	Banatska Dubica Boka Busenje Jarkovac Jaša Tomić Konak Krajišnik Neuzina Sutjeska Šurjan

*()** bold are municipalities or cities

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