Sivac

Sivac Сивац
Village
The Orthodox church.
Sivac
Coordinates: RS 45°42′N 19°23′E / 45.700°N 19.383°E / 45.700; 19.383
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Population (2002)
• Total	8,992
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Sivac (Serbian Cyrillic: Сивац) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kula municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 8,992 people (2002 census).

Name

in Hungarian: Szivác
in German Siwatz (Alt-Siwatz (old S.) and Neu-Siwatz (new S.))

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

Serbs = 5,179 (57.60%)
Montenegrins = 2,703 (30.06%)
Hungarians = 425 (4.73%)
Croats = 162 (1.80%)
others.

Historical population

1961: 11,448
1971: 10,469
1981: 9,979
1991: 9,514
2002: 8,992

Notable people

Dragoje Leković, former Serbian football player

References

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

Gallery

The Name of Mary Catholic Church.
The Calvinist church.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sivac.

Cities, towns and villages in the West Bačka District

Sombor	Aleksa Šantić Bački Breg Bački Monoštor Bezdan Gakovo Doroslovo Kljajićevo Kolut Rastina Riđica Svetozar Miletić Stanišić Stapar Telečka Čonoplja

Apatin	Kupusina Prigrevica Svilojevo Sonta

Kula	Kruščić Lipar Nova Crvenka Ruski Krstur Sivac Crvenka

Odžaci	Bački Brestovac Bački Gračac Bogojevo Deronje Karavukovo Lalić Ratkovo Srpski Miletić

bold are municipalities or cities

Coordinates: 45°42′N 19°23′E / 45.700°N 19.383°E / 45.700; 19.383

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