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Svetozar Miletić

Светозар Милетић (Serbian)
Svetozar Miletić Светозар Милетић (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
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	Coordinates: 45°51′01″N 19°12′24″E / 45.85028°N 19.20667°E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka
District	West Bačka
Municipality	Sombor
Population (2011)
• Total	2,746
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	25211
Area code	+381 25
Vehicle registration	SO

Sombor

Municipality
of Sombor
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Svetozar Miletić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Милетић, Hungarian: Nemesmilitics, Croatian: Lemeš / Svetozar Miletić, German: Milititsch) is a village located in Sombor municipality in the West Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in Bačka geographical region. The village is ethnically mixed between Hungarians and Serbs and its population numbering 2,746 inhabitants.

Name

The village was named after Svetozar Miletić, a political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina from second half of 19th century.

In Serbian, the village is known as Svetozar Miletić (Светозар Милетић), in Croatian as Lemeš (since 2009) or Svetozar Miletić (before 2009), in Bunjevac as Svetozar Miletić or Lemeš, in German as Milititsch, and in Hungarian as Nemesmillitics. Before 1925, in Serbian, Croatian and Bunjevac the name Lemeš (Лемеш) was used for the village.

The origin of the village name in Hungarian comes from the Hungarian word nemes (a noble), while for the word militics it is believed that it comes from Latin militis (a soldier). Local Bunjevci people have shortened and transformed the name Nemesmilitics into Lemeš. During the administration of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes the village name was changed into Svetozar Miletić (in 1925).

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1948	4,105	—
1953	4,036	−0.34%
1961	3,990	−0.14%
1971	3,860	−0.33%
1981	3,685	−0.46%
1991	3,292	−1.12%
2002	3,169	−0.35%
2011	2,746	−1.58%
Source: ^[1]

According to the last official census done in 2011, the village of Svetozar Miletić has 2,746 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups

According to the 2002 census, ethnic groups in the village included:

Hungarians = 1,455 (45.91%)
Croats = 581 (18.33%) (*)
Serbs = 549 (17.32%) (*)
Bunjevci = 217 (6.85%) (*)
Yugoslavs = 149 (4.70%) (*)
others.

(*) Total number of South Slavs (Croats, Serbs, Bunjevci, Yugoslavs) that live in the village is 1,496 (47.21%).

Famous persons

Arányi Jenö [hu] (1883-1944), journalist, writer, author of books for children, novelist
Gaja Alaga (1924–1988), theoretical physicist
Stevan Horvat (1932–2018), Greco-Roman style wrestler, Olympics silver medalist in 1968
Đuro Kanjurski (1853–1920), professor of Aramaic and Arabic at Royal University in Budapest
Grgo Knezi (1892–1944), priest, biologist
Petar Knezi (1859–1929), priest and writer
Tereza Kočiš (1932), gymnast that participated on several Olympics
Mirko Vidaković (1924–2002), botanist
dr Pajo Vidaković (1879–1942), priest, ethnologist, author of textbooks, writer

References

^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 25 December 2017.

Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
Antonija Čota: "Lemeš - u osimu plemenitog ravničarskog drača"

External links

(in Hungarian) History of Svetozar Miletić

[1] "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 25 December 2017.

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Svetozar Miletić (village)