Svilojevo

Svilojevo Свилојево Szilágyi
Village
Saint Stephen the King Catholic Church.
Svilojevo
Coordinates: RS 45°39′N 19°04′E / 45.650°N 19.067°E / 45.650; 19.067
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Population (2011)
• Total	1,179
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Kupusina

Apatin

Prigrevica

Svilojevo

Sonta

Municipality
of Apatin

Svilojevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Свилојево, Hungarian: Szilágyi) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Apatin municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The population of the village numbering 1,179 people (2011 census), most of whom are ethnic Hungarians.

History

In 2001, Svilojevo celebrated one hundred years since its establishment, and in 2006, the more recently renovated church became a hundred years old.

On the session of the Municipality of Apatin in June 2006, the Hungarian gained official in Svilojevo. Previously, Serbian had been the sole official language in this village,^[1] although Hungarians had composed a majority in the village.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

• Hungarians = 792 (58.07%)
• Serbs = 403 (29.55%)
• Croats = 47 (3.45%)
• Yugoslavs = 19 (1.39%)
• others.

Historical population

• 1961: 1,785
• 1971: 1,667
• 1981: 1,490
• 1991: 1,278
• 2002: 1,364
• 2011: 1,179

See also

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

References

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

External links

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• Svilojevo

Cities, towns and villages in the West Bačka District
Sombor	Aleksa Šantić Bački Breg Bački Monoštor Bezdan Gakovo Doroslovo Kljajićevo Kolut Rastina Riđica Svetozar Miletić Stanišić Stapar Telečka Čonoplja
Apatin	Kupusina Prigrevica Svilojevo Sonta
Kula	Kruščić Lipar Nova Crvenka Ruski Krstur Sivac Crvenka
Odžaci	Bački Brestovac Bački Gračac Bogojevo Deronje Karavukovo Lalić Ratkovo Srpski Miletić
bold are municipalities or cities

Coordinates: 45°39′N 19°04′E / 45.650°N 19.067°E / 45.650; 19.067