Grebenac

Grebenac Гребенац Grebenaț
Village
The Romanian Orthodox Church
Grebenac Location of Grebenac within Serbia
Grebenac Location of Grebenac within Vojvodina
Coordinates: 44°52′21″N 21°15′11″E / 44.87250°N 21.25306°ECoordinates: 44°52′21″N 21°15′11″E / 44.87250°N 21.25306°E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Elevation	60 m (200 ft)
Population (2002)
• Grebenac	1,017
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	26347
Area code(s)	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

Grebenac (Serbian Cyrillic: Гребенац, Romanian: Grebenaț) is a village in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Bela Crkva municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority (82.3%) and a population of 1,017 (2002 census).

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Grebenac (Гребенац), in Romanian as Grebenaț, in Hungarian as Gerebenc, and in German as Grebenatz.

Historical population

Romanian presence is attested by a stone cross in the local graveyard, from 1297 and by a document in Wiena about a trial between Luca family and another local family.

• 1961: 2,129
• 1971: 2,040
• 1981: 1,893
• 1991: 1,608

Personalities

• Vasko Popa, poet; studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna. During World War II, he fought as a partisan and was imprisoned in a German concentration camp.
• Petru Lungu, soldier in the Romanian Army in the Second World War. Participant in great battles near Stalingrad. Also fought against German troops in 1945. Finally enrolled in the Foreign Legion, and captured by Vietnamese army at Dien Bien Phu, last battle of French colonialists.

See also

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

References

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

External links

• Map of the Bela Crkva municipality showing the location of Grebenac