Međa

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Међа
Međa
Párdány
Meda
Међа

Catholic Church of St. John Nepomuk

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Međa (Serbia)
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Basic data
State : Serbia
Province : Vojvodina
Okrug : Srednji Banat
Opština : Žitište
Coordinates : 45 ° 32 '  N , 20 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 32 '5 "  N , 20 ° 48' 15"  E
Height : 81  m. i. J.
Area : 48.7  km²
Residents : 831 (2011)
Population density : 17 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+381) 023
Postal code : 23234
License plate : ZR
Structure and administration
Community type: Village
Mayor : Dragan Milenković ( DS )
Website :

Međa [ mɛ̌d̠͡ʑa ] ( Serbian - Cyrillic Међа , Hungarian Párdány , German  Pardan , Romanian Meda ) is a village in the Opština Žitište , Serbia with 831 inhabitants. The place is about a kilometer west of the border with Romania .

history

Church tower of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel zu Međa

Međa is one of the oldest places in the Banat . It was first mentioned as a monastery in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1247 under the name Párdány or Pardanj. During the Ottoman rule , the place is mainly inhabited by Serbs, who were followed by Germans and Magyars in the second half of the 18th century . The place was separated into a Serbian and a German-Hungarian part until 1907.

After the First World War , Pardanj was awarded to Romania by the Peace Treaty of Versailles and in 1924 it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . The name of the city was changed to Ninčićevo ( Serbian - Cyrillic Нинчићево ) in honor of the successful diplomatic border shift by the then Foreign Minister Momčilo Ninčić .

After the Second World War , the German residents were expelled from the village. They were followed by settlers from Bosnia and Herzegovina , who renamed the place Međa ( German  border ) due to its geographical location on the border with Romania .

The Roman Catholic Cemetery

religion

The majority of the village's population belongs to the Serbian Orthodox Church . In the village is the Serbian Orthodox parish church of St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel , built from 1760 to 1770 .

In Međa there is also the Roman Catholic Church of St. John Nepomuk and there is a Roman Catholic cemetery.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Međa on the official website of the Žitište Serbian administration