Petrovo Selo
Петрово Село Petrovo Selo |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Serbia | |||
Okrug : | boron | |||
Opština : | Kladovo | |||
Coordinates : | 44 ° 38 ' N , 22 ° 27' E | |||
Residents : | 129 (2002) | |||
Telephone code : | (+381) 019 | |||
License plate : | BO | |||
Structure and administration | ||||
Community type: | Village |
Petrovo Selo ( Cyrillic : Петрово Село) is a village in Opština Kladovo and in the Bor district in eastern Serbia , about five kilometers south of the Danube , which forms the border with Romania here.
Residents
The 2002 census (self-named) showed that 129 people live in the village. Of which were:
number | percent | |
total | 129 | 100 |
Serbs | 82 | 63.56 |
Montenegrins | 45 | 34.88 |
Romanians | 1 | 0.77 |
Yugoslavs | 1 | 0.77 |
Other censuses:
- 1948: 1,222
- 1953: 1.209
- 1961: 1.144
- 1971: 589
- 1981: 376
- 1991: 224
Mass grave of Petrovo Selo
In 2001 a mass grave with at least 39 bodies was found near the village. They are believed to have been victims of acts of violence related to the 1999 Kosovo war .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overall result of the census of April 2002 (English) ( Memento of March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 379 kB)
- ↑ New mass grave finds in Serbia . BBC news, June 29, 2001