Jarkovac

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Јарковац
Jarkovac
Árkod
Iarcovăț
Јарковац

The Serbian Orthodox Church in Jarkovac.

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Jarkovac (Serbia)
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Basic data
State : Serbia
Province : Vojvodina
Okrug : Srednji Banat
Opština : Sečanj
Coordinates : 45 ° 16 '  N , 20 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 16 '5 "  N , 20 ° 45' 18"  E
Height : 50  m. i. J.
Area : 60.4  km²
Residents : 1,505 (2011)
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+381) 023
Postal code : 23250
License plate : ZR

Jarkovac ( Serbian - Cyrillic Јарковац , Hungarian Árkod , German  Jarkowatz , Romanian Iarcovăț ) is a place in the Serbian Banat and belongs to the Opština Sečanj .

Demographics

In Jarkovac, the Serbs form the ethnic majority (76.27%), followed by Hungarians (8.69%) and Romanians (5.72%). The population is falling steadily; In the 1950s the place had over 3,000 inhabitants, in 2011 there were only 1,505 residents.

religion

Reliable data are lacking, but it can be assumed that the Baroque-style, single-nave Serbian Orthodox Church in Jarkovac was built in the second half of the 18th century. The artistic design of the chancel was made in the years 1858–1861 by the Serbian painter Konstantin Danil. Wall paintings by Stevan Aleksić were added in 1911, and the roof structure was renewed in the same year. Further redevelopment measures were taken from 1974 to 1975 and 1978.

history

Until the Treaty of Trianon (1920) the village belonged to Torontál County in the Kingdom of Hungary , then to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , since 1928 to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, since 2006 to Serbia . During the Balkan campaign , the place was occupied by the Wehrmacht in 1941 until they withdrew in 1944.

Individual evidence

  1. Sources for the demographic data are the French and Serbian Wikipedia.
  2. ↑ The source on church history is the website Zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture Zrenjanin .
  3. ↑ The source for the brief outline of the local history is Wikipedia in Esperanto.