Horgoš
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Хоргош Horgoš Horgos |
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 Main street in Horgoš |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
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Severni Banat |
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| Opština : | Kanjiža | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 9 ' N , 19 ° 58' E | ||||
| Height : | 75 m. i. J. | ||||
| Residents : | 6,325 (2002) | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) 024 | ||||
| Postal code : | 24410/24411 | ||||
| License plate : | KA | ||||
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Horgoš ( Serbian - Cyrillic Хоргош , Hungarian Horgos ) is a village of the Opština Kanjiža in the Okrug Severni Banat in the Serbian province of Vojvodina . The population is 6,325 (2002). 83.8% of the population are Hungarians . The place is known for its paprika - Horgoška paprika . The main border crossing between Serbia and Hungary is located near the village .
history
The origin of the name Horgoš is Hungarian (old. Horgas ) and means something like 'hook-shaped' or 'bottleneck'.
Historically, the place belonged to the Batschka in the Kingdom of Hungary . Administratively it was part of the Csongrád County for several centuries . When it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , it was reassigned to the Batschka in 1920, while today it belongs administratively to the North Banat .
In 2015 the place came into the focus of international attention when Hungary erected its border fence with Serbia in the course of the refugee crisis in Europe . The Röszke – Horgoš section of the Szeged – Röszke – Subotica railway line served as the main line for refugees on the Balkan route until the very end . At the beginning of September of the year several thousand people passed by every day trying to reach Germany or other EU countries from Greece. Between the village and the state border, completely chaotic conditions prevailed in waiting camps without water or infrastructure. On September 14th, this railway line was closed with an iron gate as the last construction measure on the Hungarian side. Within a day, around 20,000 people who wanted to try to reach Hungary were jammed at the border. There were riots at the border crossing, during which the Hungarian security forces prevented the barriers from being breached. As a result, Hungary closed the border crossing completely for 30 days. Some of the remainder made their own way to the Serbian-Croatian border near Šid / Tovarnik , which was now the focus of the refugee crisis, the others were moved there by bus by the Serbian authorities. At Horgoš / Röszke, the flow of refugees subsided within days, and the information in social media reacted very quickly to the changed situation.
At the end of May 2016, refugees camped again in Horgoš; Hungary banned the UNHCR from erecting large tents or distributing small tents to refugees.
population
| year | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2002 | 2010 |
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| Residents | 7.902 | 7,768 | 7,871 | 7,823 | 7,640 | 7,201 | 6.325 | 5,766 |
| nationality | number | % |
| Hungary | 5302 | 83.83 |
| Serbs | 436 | 6.89 |
| Roma | 298 | 4.71 |
| Montenegrins | 23 | 0.36 |
| Croatians | 20th | 0.32 |
| other | 132 | 2.09 |
religion
The majority of the inhabitants of the village are of Roman Catholic denomination. But there is also a minority of Serbian Orthodox Christians in Horgoš.
The Roman Catholic Church of St. John Nepomuk is in the village . There is also a Serbian Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of Christ in the village , which is a subsidiary church of the Kanjiža parish .
Sons and daughters of the village
- Aleksandar Tišma (1924-2003), writer
- László Huzsvár (1931–2016), Bishop of Zrenjanin
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian . Lief. 3, Budapest 1993. p. 578 and L. Kiss: Földrajzi nevek etimológia szótára . Budapest 1988. Vol. IS 607.
- ↑ See also Commons: Category: Migrants at Hungary-Serbia border - Wikimedia picture collection.
- ↑ Camp in Röszke “as good as empty”. ORF.at, September 14, 2015.
- ↑ Hungary: Orbán slams the border gate. Jürgen Streihammer in: Die Presse online, September 15, 2015.
- ^ Refugees: Stricter regulations in Hungary. ORF.at, September 15, 2015.
- ↑ a b Refugees: border controls in Austria from midnight. And still today controls at the Slovenian border. Liveticker, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , September 15 and 16, 2015 - Overview of the overall situation in Central Europe these days.
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↑ Tumults on the Serbian-Hungarian border: "We'll wait until the gate opens again". Adelheid Wölfl from Horgos, in: Der Standard online, September 16, 2015;
Attempted border breakthrough: Violent riots on the Serbian-Hungarian border. In: Pester Lloyd 38, 2015, September 16, 2015, online. - ↑ First refugee bus reaches the Serbian-Croatian border. ORF.at, September 16, 2015.
- ↑ spiegel.de / Keno Verseck May 26, 2016: Hungarian-Serbian border: Europe's new misery camp
- ↑ a b Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia: Population Census 2002 , Book 1: Population - Nationality or Ethnic Affiliation by Municipalities ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: World Gazetteer estimate, on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
