- Gospođinci
Gospođinci (Госпођинци) is a village in the municipality of
Žabalj , in theSouth Bačka District ofSerbia . It is situated in the Autonomous Province ofVojvodina . The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 3,896 (2002 census).Name
Its name derived from the Serbian word "gospođa" ("lady" in English). In Serbian, the village is known as Госпођинци or "Gospođinci", in Croatian as "Gospođinci", in Hungarian as "Boldogasszonyfalva", and in German as "Frauendorf".
Features
This is a typical Vojvodinian village with its inhabitants mostly working in agriculture or in the capital of Vojvodina,
Novi Sad . Most of the village streets are straight from one end to another with houses built one next to the other.History
From the time of the
Roman Empire just outside the village, on the west, lies the trench which Romans have used for transport. During the Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), the village of Gospođinci was populated by ethnicSerbs . During the Habsburg rule in the 18th and 19th century, the village belonged to theMilitary Frontier province (the Šajkaš Battalion section).Since 1918, the village was part of the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states. During the Hungarian Axis occupation, in 1942 raid, 85 inhabitants of the village were murdered, of whom 47 were men, 19 women, 15 children, and 4 old people. By nationality, victims included 73Serbs , 10Jews , and 2 Rusyns.Historical population
*1948: 3,239
*1953: 3,305
*1961: 3,705
*1971: 3,654
*1981: 3,817
*1991: 3,553
*2002: 3,896As the data from 1981 to 1991 shows, the village had greater mortality rate then natality, which was, and still is, the main problem in whole of Vojvodina, due to dropping of standard caused by the death of
Josip Broz Tito , and the communists ideals, which led to escalating crysis in former SFR of Yugoslavia. However, the data from 1991 to 2002 shows population increase caused by the Serb refuges from Bosnia and Croatia who settled in the village during the Yugoslav wars. Fact|date=April 2007Famous people
* Dragan Stojinov, Master of Business Administration, lives in Germany, CEO and Former of the b2next cosulting Ltd. and Co-Former of the new European Academy for Applied Technology (EAAT)
References
*Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
*Zvonimir Golubović, Racija u južnoj Bačkoj 1942. godine, Novi Sad, 1991.
*Dr Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 1, Novi Sad, 1990.ee also
*
List of places in Serbia
*List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina External links
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/YI/2/Gospodinci.html Gospođinci]
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