Petrovo Selo

Петрово Село
Petrovo Selo

Basic data

State :

Serbia

Okrug :

boron

Opština :

Kladovo

Coordinates :

44 ° 38 ' N , 22 ° 27' E Coordinates: 44 ° 38 '20 " N , 22 ° 27' 9" 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

[1] Overall result of the census of April 2002 (English) ( Memento of March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 379 kB)

[2] New mass grave finds in Serbia . BBC news, June 29, 2001