Jarak
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Јарак Jarak Árki |
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 Street scene in Jarak |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
| Okrug : | Srem | ||||
| Opština : | Sremska Mitrovica | ||||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 55 ' N , 19 ° 45' E | ||||
| Height : | 78 m. i. J. | ||||
| Area : | 32.4 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 2,039 (2012) | ||||
| Population density : | 63 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) 022 | ||||
| Postal code : | 22426 | ||||
| License plate : | SM | ||||
Jarak ( Cyrillic : Јарак) is a village belonging to the Opština Sremska Mitrovica in Srem , in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina . It had a population of 2,039 in 2011.
Surname
The village bears the name Jarak in Serbian and Croatian, which means digging in German. The name Árki is also used in Hungarian .
geography
The village lies on a plain 78 m above sea level in Srem (Syrmia), one of the three main regions of Vojvodina. Jarak lies on the bank of the Sava River . The two Sava tributaries, Jarčina and Kudoš, flow into the Save near the village . The village is located on the main road from Novi Sad to Loznica , southeast of the municipal capital Sremska Mitrovica .
population
Jarak had 2,242 inhabitants at the 2002 census, 2,099 of them Serbs (94%). The village consists of 713 households.
Demographics
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1948 | 1315 |
| 1953 | 1587 |
| 1961 | 2083 |
| 1971 | 2296 |
| 1981 | 2092 |
| 1991 | 2256 |
| 2002 | 2235 |
| 2011 | 2039 |
religion
The majority of the villagers profess to the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Great Martyr George from the 1770s is in Jarak .
There is also a Serbian-Orthodox village cemetery in the village and an Orthodox wayside cross in the center of the village. About 30 inhabitants are Roman or Greek Catholics , without their own place of worship.
history
According to the traces found in the form of objects, there was probably a settlement in today's village area as early as the times of the Illyrians and Celts .
Far more traces of settlement in today's village come from the time of the ancient Romans . Among the artifacts found from this era is the late antique gilded Roman helmet of Jarak, from the 4th century, which was found near the village in 2006.
Jarak was registered as a fortress settlement as early as the 14th century. The village was conquered and devastated by the Ottomans in 1526 . In the 18th century Jarak had about thirty houses, and in the next century there were about 150 families with almost two thousand souls in the village.
The village has been ravaged by wars many times over its centuries of history. The population of the village often fell victim to these conflicts and new residents came to the place. However, Jarak has always been a Serbian settlement and the school was taught in Serbian.
In the written records, a school in the village is first mentioned in 1733; it was probably a private school in a private house. In 1746 the construction of a school building in Jarak is mentioned. It was recorded that in 1766 there were 10 students in the village, at that time Grigorije Bojčić was a teacher in the village. In the school year 1802/03 there were 27 students in the village and in the school year 1871/72 57 students attended the school.
On September 13, 1914, during the First World War , the entire village of Jarak was set on fire by the Austro-Hungarian army and all the inhabitants of the village were arrested and brought to court in the town of Irig . The reason given for this atonement was that the villagers had provided the Serbian army with food and shelter. Jarak burned for seven full days and of the 240 houses in the village, only 9 were spared from the sea of flames.
The records state that although the village burned down in 1914, schools were resumed in 1917. During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , Jarak was a larger village, so it had a primary school with five classes.
The village was also exposed to great suffering during World War II when the entire village archive and school archive was burned down.
Jarak Šabac marathon
The Jarak-Šabac international swimming marathon takes place in Jarak every year. The 25 km long marathon is intended to commemorate a crime committed by the Wehrmacht in September 1941 at the time of World War II against the Serbian and Jewish civilians of the city of Šabac. This event has stuck in the memory of the local population and Yugoslav literature as a blood march .
At that time, under the guard of the Wehrmacht, 5,000 captured civilians from Šabac had to run to the Jarak concentration camp, which at that time had been newly established in the village, without food or water under the great brutality of the guards. Many civilians died on the way. Those who reached the goal were provided with bread and water by the residents of Jarak.
Due to the unfavorable military situation, the Jarak concentration camp was not used for permanent prisoners' stay, but the surviving civilians were forced to run back to Šabac to the newly built Šabac concentration camp immediately after reaching the camp.
A memorial fountain was built in the village in 1961 to commemorate this tragedy.
Culture and infrastructure
In Jarak there is a branch of the primary school Jovan Jovanović Zmaj from Sremska Mitrovica, with 310 pupils. In the village there are among other things: a culture house (Dom kulture) in the village center, a pharmacy, a health center (Dom zdravlja), a post office and a supermarket. Jarak is the seat of a local community (Mesna zajednica).
Sports
The football club FK Sremac is located in the village .
swell
- 1. ^ Књига 9, Становништво, упоредни преглед броја становника 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, мај 2004, ISBN 86-84433-14-9
- 2. ^ Књига 1, Становништво, национална или етничка припадност, подаци по насељима, ISBN , Реповништво, Репионална ас-, 2003, Басв8франа, ас-, Басвана, Бодаци по насељима
- 3. ^ Књига 2, Становништво, пол и старост, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, фебруар 2003, ISBN 86-84433-01-7
- 4. ^ Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996
- Information on the village history on the website of the primary school in Sremska Mitrovica , (Serbian)
