Lokve, Alibunar

Lokve Локве Sân-Mihai, Simiai
Village
The Romanian Orthodox church
Lokve Location of Lokve within Serbia
Lokve Location of Lokve within Vojvodina
Coordinates: 45°09′06″N 21°01′31″E / 45.15167°N 21.02528°ECoordinates: 45°09′06″N 21°01′31″E / 45.15167°N 21.02528°E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Elevation	76 m (249 ft)
Population (2011)
• Lokve	2,002
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	26361
Area code(s)	+381(0)13
Car plates	PA

Lokve (Serbian Cyrillic: Локве, Romanian: Locve, Sân-Mihai or Simiai) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Alibunar municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority (90.85%) and a population of 2,002 people (2002 census). More than half of population of Lokve lives abroad, mainly in USA and Switzerland.^[1]

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Lokve (Локве), in Romanian as Sân-Mihai or Simiai, and in Hungarian as Végszentmihály.

Historical population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1948	4,184	—
1953	4,246	+1.5%
1961	4,243	−0.1%
1971	3,826	−9.8%
1981	3,511	−8.2%
1991	2,450	−30.2%
2002	2,002	−18.3%

See also

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

Sources

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
• Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku, Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u 2002, Stanovništvo 1, Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost - podaci po naseljima, Beograd, Februar 2003.
• Na temeljima gde je prvobitno bilo smešteno naselje pronađeni su praistorijski predmeti i jedan srebrni denar iz doba kralja Domicijana (51 - 96. pre n.e.). U ataru susednog sela Janošik pronađeni su temelji kuće iz doba Rimljana i kraljevski novac. Prilikom iskopa temelja Crkve u Alibunaru pronađen je novac sa amblemom Rima i natpisom Vibius, Tribarianus, Gallus.

References

Notes

1. RTS about village Lokve

External links

• Official Website of Lokve