Aleksa Šantić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Шантић) is a village located in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The population of the village numbering 2,172 people (2002 census) and most of its inhabitants are ethnic Serbs.

Aleksa Šantić Алекса Шантић (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
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Coordinates: 45°56′N 19°20′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka
District	West Bačka
Municipality	Sombor
Population  (2002)
• Total	2,172
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Sombor

Kljajićevo

Čonoplja

Svetozar Miletić

Telečka

Bački Monoštor

Bezdan

Kolut

Bački Breg

Gakovo

Kruševlje

Stanišić

Aleksa Šantić

Rastina

Riđica

Stapar

Doroslovo

Municipality
of Sombor
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Name

The village is named (in 1924) after Aleksa Šantić, a Serb poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Serbo-Croatian, the village is known as Aleksa Šantić (Алекса Шантић), and in Hungarian as Babapuszta, Sári, or Hadikkisfalu.

History

In 1468, a settlement named Sáripuszta was mentioned at this location. The present-day village was founded between 1923 and 1926 and was settled by Serb volunteers from World War I. During the Hungarian Axis occupation in World War II, the name of the village was changed to Fernbach.

Historical population

• 1961: 1,751
• 1971: 2,064
• 1981: 2,259
• 1991: 2,267
• 2002: 2,172
• 2011: 1,778

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

• Aleksa Šantić - www.soinfo.org

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