Veljkovo

Вељково Veljkovo
Basic data
State :	Serbia
Okrug :	boron
Opština :	Negotin
Coordinates :	44 ° 7 '  N , 22 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 7 '24 "  N , 22 ° 35' 55"  E
Height :	120  m. i. J.
Residents :	206 (2002)
License plate :	BO
Structure and administration
Community type:	Village
Others
City Festival :	Spasovdan

Veljkovo ( Cyrillic Вељково) is a village in the Opština Negotin in the Bor district in eastern Serbia .

History and name

The village is first mentioned in Turkish records in 1530 with 28 houses and in 1586 with only ten houses.

It is mentioned under the name Bljivanovac on Austro-Hungarian maps of the region from 1718 . Until the 19th century, when the village was named Veljkovo, it kept the name Bljivanovac .

Residents

The 2002 census (self-nomination) showed that 206 people live in the village.

Of which were:

	number	percent
total	206	100
Serbs	203	98.54
Croatians	1	0.48
Romanians	1	0.48
Unknown	1	0.48

Other censuses:

• 1921: 526
• 1948: 547
• 1953: 560
• 1961: 483
• 1971: 443
• 1981: 371
• 1991: 316

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1. ↑ Website of the Negotin municipality (Serbian)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Overall result of the census of April 2002 (English) ( Memento of March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 379 kB)
3. ↑ Website of the Negotin municipality (Serbian)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.