Kovin
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Ковин Kovin |
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| Basic data | |||||
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
| Okrug : | Okrug Južni Banat | ||||
| Opština : | Opština Kovin | ||||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 45 ' N , 20 ° 58' E | ||||
| Area : | 98.67 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 13,515 (2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 137 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) 013 | ||||
| Postal code : | 26220 | ||||
| License plate : | KO | ||||
| Structure and administration | |||||
| Community type: | local community | ||||
| Structure : | 10 places | ||||
| Mayor : | Slavko Branković | ||||
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Kovin ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ковин , Romanian Cuvin , Hungarian Kevevára , outdated also Temeskubin , German Kubin or Temeschkubin ) is the administrative seat in Opština Kovin in Okrug Južni Banat in Vojvodina , Serbia . The city has a population of 13,515. Kovin is located about 50 km east of Belgrade, on the left (north) bank of the Danube , a few kilometers downstream from Smederevo .
Surname
In the past, the city was also known as Donji Kovin (Lower Kubin) to separate it from the Hungarian city of Ráckeve , which is called Gornji Kovin (Upper Kubin) in Serbian .
history
The Dacian tribe of the Albocensians settled this area in the 2nd century AD.
There are still remains of an ancient fortress Contra Margum from Roman times , located across from the Margum fortress on the other side of the Danube . In the 9th and 10th centuries, Slavs immigrated under the rule of the Bulgarian voivod Glad . Glad was defeated by the Magyars, so that the area was incorporated into the medieval Kingdom of Hungary . In the 11th century, a descendant of Glad, Ahtum , seized power, but was again defeated by the Hungarians.
Kovin was first mentioned in the 12th century as the seat of the West Banat chair district. From the 14th century onwards, the city had a large Serbian population who had fled Serbia from the Ottomans. The Serbian despot Lazar Branković gained control of the city in 1457, but lost control after a year.
In the 16th century Kovin also fell to the Ottoman Empire and was subordinate to the Eyâlet of Temeşvar . During the Ottoman rule (16th / 17th century), Kovin was almost exclusively inhabited by Serbs. In 1716 Kovin came to the Habsburg Empire and belonged to the Banat of Timisoara until 1751 , before it was incorporated into the district of the Banat military border.
In 1848/1849 Kovin was part of the Voivodeship of Serbia , but came back under the administration of the military border in 1849. After the abolition of this district in 1873, Kovin came to the Royal Hungarian Temes County . According to the 1910 census, the Kovin district had 35,482 inhabitants, of whom 21,795 spoke Serbian , 6,587 German , 5,705 Romanian and 5,355 Hungarian . The city itself had a relative German majority. 2650 spoke German, 2200 Serbian, 1726 Romanian and 711 Hungarian.
On July 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war was justified with an alleged Serbian attack near Temes Kubin , which probably never took place.
In 1918 Kovin became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed Yugoslavia in 1929 ). Between 1918 and 1922 it was part of the Banat District; from 1922 to 1929 to Podunavska Oblast and until 1941 to Dunavska banovina . From 1941 to 1944 Kovin was occupied by the Axis Powers and part of the autonomous region of Banat in Serbia occupied by Greater Germany . From 1945 Kovin was part of the SFR Yugoslavia .
Twin town
- Ráckeve , Hungary
population
Population development of the city
| year | 1900 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2002 |
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| population | 5,847 | 8.309 | 9.766 | 11.986 | 12.408 | 13.779 | 13.669 | 14,250 |
Ethnic composition
| year | total | Serbs | Magyars | Romanians | Roma | Montenegrins | Yugoslavs | Macedonians | rest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 13.669 | 76.19% | 6.78% | 3.47% | 1.40% | 1.67% | 6.81% | 0.76% | 2.21% |
| 2002 | 14,250 | 80.79% | 5.51% | 2.93% | 2.00% | 0.92% | 1.26% | 0.50% | 6.09% |
traffic
Kovin is accessed by the national road 24 ( Smederevo - Danube bridge - Kovin - Pančevo ) as well as the road 115 which from here to the east in the direction of Bela Crkva and the Romanian border. Further runs from north ( railway Pančevo-Vršac a stitch line, Abzw Vladimirovac) coming to Sportboothafen Kovin. Kovin is on the Danube Cycle Path .
Personalities
The sons and daughters of the city are:
- Darko Kovačević (* 1973), Serbian football player
- Jelena Krstic (* 1981) Serbian singer
Historically connected with the city are:
- Engelbert I. von Berg († 1189 in Kubin), German nobleman
- Koča Anđelković (1755–1788), Serbian militant leader, lived in Kubin
swell
- ↑ cf. Ptolemy : Geographia
- ↑ Magyar statisztikai KÖZLEMÉNYEK, A Magyar Szent corona országainak 1910. Évi népszámlálása. Élső Rész. A népesség főbb adatai községek és népesebb puszták, telepek szerint (Budapest, 1912) pp. 358–359.
- Jovan Erdeljanović, Srbi u Banatu , Novi Sad, 1992.
- Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine , Novi Sad, 1996.
- Msgr. Erős Lajos, Adalékok a Zrenjanini-Nagybecskereki Egyházmegye történetéhez , 1993. (Additamenta ad historiam Diocesis Zrenjaninensis-Nagybecskerekensis )
