Žabalj
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Жабаљ Žabalj Zsablya |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
| Okrug : |
Južna Bačka |
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| Opština : | Žabalj | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 22 ' N , 20 ° 4' E | ||||
| Area : | 400 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 9,598 (2002) | ||||
| Agglomeration : | 27,513 (2002) | ||||
| Population density : | 24 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) 21 | ||||
| Postal code : | 21230 | ||||
| License plate : | NS | ||||
| Structure and administration (status: 2007) | |||||
| Community type: | city | ||||
| Structure : | 4th | ||||
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Žabalj ( Serbian - Cyrillic Жабаљ , Hungarian Zsablya , German Josefsdorf ) is a town in the Serbian province of Vojvodina , near Novi Sad in the district of Južna Bačka . Žabalj is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name .
Surname
The name Žabalj is derived from the Serbian word žaba (frog). The Hungarian name Zsablya goes back to this. In German the place was called Josefsdorf , to which the Hungarian name Józseffalva , which was valid from 1886 to 1919, corresponded.
history
The village was first mentioned in 1514 under the name Zeble , captured by the Hungarian cavalry captain György Dózsa in the fight against the Ottomans. In the 18th century the place became part of the Habsburg military border . The first church is mentioned in 1720, but today's Nikolaikirche dates from 1835.
The 1910 census showed 7993 inhabitants, 5090 Serbs, 1722 Hungarians and 1074 Germans .
In 1918 the village became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and was officially named Žabalj.
Second World War
During the Second World War the place was occupied and annexed by Hungarians . In January 1942 the Novi Sad massacre occurred , in the course of which, according to Yugoslav sources, 666 inhabitants of Žabalj were murdered, of whom 355 were men, 141 women, 101 children and 69 old people. 614 of the victims were Serbs, 28 Jews, 23 Roma and one Hungarian. In the autumn and winter of 1944, Tito's partisans again killed a large number of people of Hungarian and German ethnicity.
On November 5, 1946, Žabalj was the scene of executions : Here stood the gallows on which the Hungarian soldiers Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner , József Grassy and László Deák , who were sentenced to death for the 1942 massacre , were hanged .
population
According to the 2002 census, Žabalj has 9,598 inhabitants, of which 8,672 (90.4%) Serbs, 202 Roma, 119 Yugoslavs, 88 Croats and 85 Hungarians. Four people described themselves as Germans .
literature
- Slobodan Ćurčić (1996): Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad (Serbian)
- Zvonimir Golubović (1991): Racija u južnoj Bačkoj 1942. godine, Novi Sad (Serbian)
- Dr Dušan J. Popović (1990): Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 1, Novi Sad (Serbian)