Stajićevo

Stajićevo Стајићево
Village
The Orthodox Church
Stajićevo Location of Stajićevo within Serbia
Stajićevo Location of Stajićevo within Vojvodina
Coordinates: 45°17′23″N 20°27′14″E / 45.28972°N 20.45389°E / 45.28972; 20.45389Coordinates: 45°17′23″N 20°27′14″E / 45.28972°N 20.45389°E / 45.28972; 20.45389
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Elevation	76 m (249 ft)
Population (2002)
• Stajićevo	1,999
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23204
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

Stajićevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Стајићево) is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (96.29%) and its population numbering 1,999 people (2002 census).

Name

Names in other languages: Hungarian: Óécska, German: Alt-Etschka.

History

Stajićevo was founded in 1922 and was settled by Serb families from Elemir, Aradac, Farkaždin, Ečka, Taraš, Kumane, Botoš, and Orlovat. Whole families came in a new village, which is founded in park of count Lazar d’Echka, respectively it of his successor Felix d’Harnoncourt; the streets received those names, where they came from: Elemirski sokak (Elemir’ corner), Aradački sokak, Farkaždinski sokak, Taraški sokak, Kumanovski and Botoški sokak. Them guided orthodox priest with name Stajić from village Taraš and from him became name this new village. He is buried in Stajićevo on cemetery. Until 1925, about 200 houses was built, which were populated by 1,000 inhabitants of Serb ethnicity. In 1991, a notorious concentration camp was created by Serbs for Croatian POWs and civilians from Vukovar known as the Stajićevo camp (Logor Stajićevo). Former prisoners from Vukovar visited this place on farm Livade on 22. April, 2009.

Historical population

1961: 1,413
1971: 1,607
1981: 1,993
1991: 2,058
2002: 1,999

References

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

External links

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Stajićevo

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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