Isakovo
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Исаково Isakovo |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Okrug : | Pomoravlje | ||||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 1 ' N , 21 ° 24' E | ||||
| Residents : | 649 | ||||
Isakovo ( Serbian - Cyrillic Исаково ) is a village with 649 inhabitants in central Serbia , Opština Ćuprija in the Okrug Pomoravlje administrative district . The village is about 10 km east of the town of Ćuprija . Since its peak in the 1980s, when the population was 1587, this has fallen sharply. Many residents emigrated to Austria or Switzerland for economic reasons .
The village is 96% inhabited by Wallachians ( Vlasi ). The remaining inhabitants are Serbs and Romanians. The inhabitants of Isakovo call themselves "Iskovienj" in Romanian .
Incidents
Between 1924 and 1939, 127 murders were reported in this village. The reasons for this were revenge and quarreling over the inheritance.
During the Second World War , about 120 men from the village went to war, about 40 of them came back. A memorial was erected in the village center for the fallen.
In 2003 a large area of land next to the village was burned. The cause was a forest fire; how the fire started is still unclear today.