Međa
Међа Međa Párdány Meda |
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Catholic Church of St. John Nepomuk |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Serbia | |||
Province : | Vojvodina | |||
Okrug : |
Srednji Banat |
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Opština : | Žitište | |||
Coordinates : | 45 ° 32 ' N , 20 ° 48' 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
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 .
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
- Count János Butler de Párdány , Hungarian aristocrat , whose life was the inspiration for the Kálmán Mikszáth novel " Strange Marriage ".
- Vuk Drašković (* 1946), writer and Foreign Minister of Serbia
Web links
Međa on the official website of the Žitište Serbian administration