Kruščić (Serbian Cyrillic: Крушчић, Hungarian: Veprőd) is a village in the Kula municipality, West Bačka District, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia.

Kruščić Крушчић (Serbian) Veprőd  (Hungarian)
Village (Selo)
Statue of Saint Florian
Seal
Map of Kruščić and other settlements in the neighborhood
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Coordinates: 45°37′N 19°22′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka
District	West Bačka
Municipality	Kula
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,852
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

The population of the village is ethnically mixed and numbering 1,852 people (2011 census).

Name

Before the Second World War, village was called Veprovac (Вепровац).

After the war, during the colonization, village was inhabited by colonists, mostly from Kolašin and its surroundings. In 1950 name of the village was changed to Kruščić, after national hero from World War II Vukman Kruščić (1909-1942), who was caught and killed on 20 January 1942, along with another 30 or so partisans, by the chetniks of Pavle Đurišić.

In Hungarian, the village is known as "Veprőd", in Ukrainian and Rusyn as "Крущич", and in German as "Weprovatz".

Ethnic groups

There are 1884 adult residents living in the village of Kruščić and the average age of residents is 40.5 years (38.4 for men and 42.7 for women). The village has 773 households and the average number of residents per household is 3.04.

The population in this village is very inhomogeneous, in the last three censuses a decline in population has been noticed.

According to the 2002 census, ethnic groups included:

• 768 (32.64%) Montenegrins
• 744 (31.62%) Serbs
• 280 (11.90%) Hungarians
• 149 (6.33%) Ukrainians
• 99 (4.20%) Rusyns
• 74 (3.14%) Croatians
• 45 (1,91%) Yugoslavs
• 10 (0,42%) Germans
• 8 (0.33%) Macedonians
• 5 (0.21%) Slovaks
• 4 (0.16%) Slovenes
• 2 (0.08%) Bulgarians
• 2 (0.08%) Albanians
• 1 (0.04%) Russians
• 1 (0.04%) Romanians
• 1 (0.04%) Bunjevci
• 1 (0.04%) Bosniaks
• 22 (0.93%) Unknown

Historical population

• 1787: 1,731 (55% Hungarians and Slovaks, 45% Germans)
• 1910: 3,163 (2,458 Germans, 637 Hungarians, 53 Rusyns)
• 1931: 3,158 (2,551 Germans, 489 Hungarians, 118 Slavs)
• 1961: 3,281
• 1971: 2,927
• 1981: 2,658
• 1991: 2,477 (973 Montenegrins, 539 Serbs, 350 Hungarians, 18 Germans)
• 2002: 2,353 (768 Montenegrins, 744 Serbs, 280 Hungarians, 10 Germans)

Gallery

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  Map of Kula municipality showing the location of the village
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  Saint Stephen the King 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.

External links

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• “A Home for Town Planning Kula-Odžaci”, Kula^{[permanent dead link]}

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