Veliko Središte

Veliko Središte Велико Средиште
Village (Selo)
A street in the village, the Orthodox church, and the typical motif from Vojvodinian villages: cows going home after daily pasture.
Coat of arms
45°10′24″N 21°24′13″E / 45.17333°N 21.40361°E / 45.17333; 21.40361
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Elevation	121 m (397 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Veliko Središte	1,269
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26334
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

Veliko Središte (Serbian Cyrillic: Велико Средиште; Hungarian: Nagyszered) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province.

Demography

The village has a Serb ethnic majority (77.91%) and its population numbering 1,269 people (2011 census). There is a sizable number of ethnic Hungarians (7.38%), Czechs (4.25%), Romanians (2.38%) and other minorities as well as ethnically mixed families which is not uncommon in Vojvodina.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Veliko Središte (Велико Средиште), in Hungarian as Nagyszered, in Romanian as Srediștea Mare, and in German as Groß-Sredischte.

Historical population

• 1961: 2,120
• 1971: 1,815
• 1981: 1,698
• 1991: 1,584
• 2002: 1,340
• 2011: 1,269

Gallery

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  The Queen of Rosary Catholic church.

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

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