Sonta
Sonta ( Serbian - Cyrillic Сонта , Hungarian Szond ) is a village in the Opština Apatin in the West Batschka district ( Zapadna Bačka ) of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia with a Croatian majority among the 4331 inhabitants.
Place name
According to oral tradition of the residents, the place name is derived from Sonda Vidaković , leader of the first chocolate cats from Herzegovina .
Culture
The patron saint of Sontas is Saint Lawrence .
history
Traces and documents of human settlements can be found for the first time in the 12th century. In the documents of King Béla III. , which date from the years 1137 to 1196, it is mentioned that the village of Sonta and the surrounding hamlets belong to the Macharias Comes as Terra Zund . In 1361 the place is bought by the mother Ludwig I , there is talk of small and large Sonta.
Because of the regular flooding, the inhabitants moved to what is today the local area in 1806. There are already 36 Roman Catholic families mentioned in Ottoman scriptures. By 1836 the population grew to 2785 inhabitants. In 1890 there were already 4972 inhabitants in Sonta, 3070 of them chocolate cats , 1041 Germans , 838 Hungarians and 23 others. In 1898 the place had 4972 inhabitants. In 1961 Sonta reached its largest population with 6,821 inhabitants and was at that time one of the largest Croatian communities in the Batschka .
In June 2006, the municipality of Sonta obtained the special status of a recognized Croatian municipality with the official language Croatian at the Apatin City Council . Since 1991 the population of the local parish has been declining. After 1991, the population structure changed for the first time in favor of the Serbs , as many (especially young) Hungarians and Croats fled to Hungary or Croatia for fear of being recruited into the Yugoslav army as a result of the Croatian War . In addition, Sonta, like most places in Vojvodina, had to accept numerous Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia , and later also from Kosovo .
Population distribution
According to the last census in 2002
Other censuses:
- 1961: 6821
- 1971: 6508
- 1981: 6313
- 1991: 5990
- 2002: 4992
- 2011: 4331
literature
- Slobodan Ćurčić: Broj stanovnika Vojvodine , Novi Sad 1996
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 45 ° 36 ' N , 19 ° 6' E